Sustaining the World's Wetlands Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts /

• Main Author: Smardon, Richard. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Applied Ecology.; Environmental law.; Environmental management.; Nature Conservation.; Environmental pollution.; Life Sciences.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49429-6

Written both as a textbook and as a professional reference book, Sustaining the World's Wetlands: Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts contains detailed case studies of wetland management worldwide. Examinations of international wetland policy in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America genera...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• International Wetland Policy and Management Issues
• The Wadden Sea Wetlands: A Multi-Jurisdictional Challenge
• The Axios River Delta  Mediterranean Wetland Under Siege
• The Kafue Flats in Zambia Africa: A Lost Floodplain?- Community Based Wetland Management: A Case Study of Brace Bridge Nature Park (BBNP), Calcutta, India
• Restoration of the Tram Chim National Wildlife Preserve, Vietnam
• The Great Lakes Wetlands Policy Consortium  Bilateral NGO Action Aimed at the Great Lakes
• Estuaries on the Edge, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
• The Mankote Mangrove: Microcosm of the Caribbean
• Review of Wetland Management Roles, Functions and Innovations
• Index.