Description
The Wetland Book, 1st ed. 2018
II: Distribution, Description, and Conservation
Coordinators: Finlayson C. Max, Milton G. Randy, Prentice R. Crawford, Davidson Nick C.
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Wetland Book:
Publication date: 06-2018
810 p. · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2018
2142 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
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Introduction
Diversity of wetlands
Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Wetland Change
North America, Greenland and the Caribbean
Central and South America
Europe
Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and West Asia
Africa
Northern and East Asia
Central and South Asia
South East Asia
Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands
Max Finlayson is an internationally renowned wetland ecologist with extensive experience internationally in water pollution, agricultural impacts, invasive species, climate change, and human well-being and wetlands. He has participated in global assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the Global Environment Outlook 4 & 5 (UNEP). Since the early 1990s he has been a technical adviser to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and has written extensively on wetland ecology and management. He has also been actively involved in environmental NGOs and from 2002-07 was President of the governing council of global NGO Wetlands International. He has contributed to over 300 journal articles, reports, guidelines, proceedings and book chapters on wetland ecology and management. He has contributed to the development of concepts and methods for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring, and undertaken many site-based assessments in many countries.
Nick Davidson was the Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands from 2000 to 2014, with overall responsibility for the Convention's global development and delivery of scientific, technical and policy guidance and advice and communications as the Convention Secretariat’s senior advisor on these matters. He has long-standing experience in, and a strong commitment to, environmental sustainability supported through the transfer of environmental science into policy-relevance and decision-making at national and international scales. Nick currently works as an independent expert consultant on wetland conservation and wise use.
Randy Milton is the Manager for the Ecosystems and Habitats Program with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources in Canada. Randy is an ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist® with 35 years’ experience in public and industry conservation and environmental management,