Conservation and Management of Greek Wetlands
Author : P. A. Gerakēs
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831701042
Author : P. A. Gerakēs
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831701042
Author : Lukas Hoffmann
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 2880320526
Author : Clare Shine
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782831704784
This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing damaging processes and activities and, lastly, regional and international frameworks for cooperation. The book complements the recent work of scientists and economists by describing how laws and institutions can work for (or against) wetland conservation and wise use. Each chapter makes the link between international legal obligations and national or local mechanisms for delivering implementation. Drawing on national practice around the world, the book illustrates how different legal approaches and techniques can be adapted to widely-varying national conditions and capabilities. Key components for legal and institutional frameworks suited to the challenge of wise use implementations are set out in the conclusion.
Author : International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau Wetland Management Training Programme
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard Smardon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2009-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387494294
Wetlands throughout the world, including those described in this book are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems. They are critical habitats to the world’s migratory birds and a broad range of endangered mammal, reptile, amphibian, and plant species. They provide a broad range of flood storage, pollution control, water supply, ecotourism functions to indigenous peoples and country populations as a whole. They are also at the center of severe land and water use conflicts. These are conflicts between counties where wetland resources or the water supplies required for such resources involve more than one country. These are conflicts in use such as conflicts between habitat protection and charcoal production in mangroves. These are conflicts between groups of peoples such as indigenous peoples and hydropower advocates. Many wetlands have already been destroyed by water extractions, dams, levees, channelization, and fills. Others have been degraded by water pollution, overfishing and overhunting, timber harvest, and a host of other activities. This book describes these conflicts and international policies and institutions developed to protect and manage wetland resources. Most of the broader literature and other books on wetlands focuses on wildlife. Wildlife is described in the case studies, which follow. But, Richard Smardon provides us with more. He traces the history of conflicts and the development of policies and insti- tions to protect and manage wetland resources.
Author : B B Hosetti
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 9788170244356
Author : Donal D. Hook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Band 2.
Author : Donal D. Hook
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1468483781
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to contribute to a book entitled Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments (eds. D. D. Hook and R. M. M. Crawford, Ann Arbor Science, 1978). Several contributors to the book suggested in 1983 that a broad-scoped symposium on wetlands would be useful (a) in facilitating communication among the diverse research groups involved in wetlands research (b) in bringing researchers and managers together and (c) in presenting a com prehensive and balanced coverage on the status of ecology ami management of wetlands from a global perspective. With this encouragement, the senior editor organized a Plan ning Committee that encompassed expertise from many disciplines of wetland scientists and managers. This Committee, with input from their colleagues around the world, organized a symposium that addressed almost every aspect of wetland ecology and management.
Author : William J. Mitsch
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The world's wetlands. Biogeochemistry. Biogeochemical cycling in wetlands in the "old" and "new" world. Tidal exchange: import-export of nutrients and organic matter in salt marshes. Ecological engineering. Wetlands and water quality. Wetlands for ecological engineering - examples from extreme circumstances. Wetland creation and restoration. Modelling and analysis. Integration of dynamic and spatial modelling of wetlands. Wetland ecosystem functioning and analysis. Policy and management. River and delta wetland management in developed and developing countries. Wetlands and disease control. Management of wetland habitat and conservation of vanishing wildlife in southeast Asia. Regulatory framework for wetlands protection.
Author : Salvador Sánchez-Carrillo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2011-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048191815
Playing a critical role in both influencing climate change and mitigating its impacts, the world’s diverse wetlands have become one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems as unsustainable land-use practices coupled with irrational use of water have already resulted in large-scale wetlands loss and degradation. To develop sound management and conservation schemes to assure wetlands sustainability in the long term requires long-term understanding of wetlands ecology. Yet until now, long-term interdisciplinary research into these systems has been limited to only a few systems from tropical or temperate climates (such as the Florida Everglades, and Czech biosphere reserve). This new book adds to the existing wetlands literature, providing a unique reference in basic and applied Mediterranean wetland ecology, based on results from long-term interdisciplinary research at the RAMSAR and UNESCO Biosphere site, of Las Tablas de Daimiel, Spain. Dating back to the early 1990s the research highlights changes in the biotic and abiotic environment in response to cumulative anthropogenic stressors, and provide guidance on applying this understand to sound management and conservation. With particular relevance to researchers dealing with semi-arid wetlands in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, as well as to resource managers, the book discusses the complexity of the interacting abiotic and biotic environment across different spatial and temporal scales and across various levels of biological hierarchy is highlighted, and reveals how management based on poor knowledge causes more damage than repair. The book will be of interest to researchers interested in freshwater ecology, hydrobotany, hydrology, geology, biogeochemistry, landscape ecology and environmental management.