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Don't drain the swamp! Man's traditional response to swamps,
marshes and bogs has been to drain them. But wetlands are not
wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive
ecosystems. They make many commercial fisheries possible and
protect coasts from floods and storm surges. Wetlands are pollution
filters, water reservoirs. They are among the last wild places on
earth, offering homes to endangered plants, birds and animals.
Attitudes to wetlands are changing, but not fast enough. As
scientists are documenting the wealth in wet places, governments
and developers are draining them, damming them, logging them and
building resort hotels where ', they once were. Destruction is
usually a poor trade-off: well-managed wetlands in Louisiana are
producing fortunes in seafood and timber. Waterlogged wealth
examines the value of swamps and marshes, as well as the threats
against them. In doing so it takes the reader to some of the
world's most bizarre landscapes: the 'inland delta' of the Niger
River in drought-stricken Mali; the wildlife-rich Okavango swamps
of Botswana; the waterlogged Sunderban forests of India and
Bangladesh, where tigers eat fish and crabs. Civilisation began
around wetlands; today's civilisation has good reason to leave them
wet and wild. Dr Edward Maltby is a lecturer in geography at the
University of Exeter(UK). He has done extensive research on
wetlands both in the North (UK, US, Canada) and the South (Fiji,
Jamaica, India and the Falklands/Malvinas Islands). He is on the
IUCN Wetland Programme Advisory Committee. Originally published in
1986
Wetlands are complex and dynamic ecological systems incorporating
two important, inter-linked components: hydrology and vegetation.
Modelling wetland components and processes reveals the nature of
wetland systems and helps to predict the effects of environmental
change. The main goal of much current research is the construction
of a vigorous and spatially-explicit model which describes the
dynamics of wetland vegetation in relation to environmental
variables, including hydrological regimes, sediment type and
nutrient availability. Knowledge about ecological functions,
environmental services and societal values associated with wetlands
has increased rapidly. How to turn this knowledge into practical
benefits for sustainable and integrated wetland management is a key
question. Individual chapters address the ethics and sociology of
wetlands, and the ecology, ecohydrology and conservation practice
of a variety of landscapes and countries. It will be useful to
students, teachers and scientists involved in wetland research and
informative for the staff of governmental bodies and other
organizations engaged in wetland management.
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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