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Sustaining the World's Wetlands - Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Sustaining the World's Wetlands - Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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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.
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