Wetland Conservation: A Review of Current Issues and Required ActionIUCN, 1990 - 96 من الصفحات There is today a growing awareness that many wetlands are more valuable in their natural, or only slightly modified state, than if drained, dyked or built upon. Past neglect of wetlands has meant that there is insufficient material available on policy guidance, planning techniques, or management methodologies for their conservation and sustainable use in different regions. This publication begins to redress the balance by reviewing the importance of wetlands, examining the reasons for wetland loss, and identifying ways and means to improve wetland management. |
المحتوى
Foreword and Guide | 2 |
The scale and consequences of wetland loss and alteration | 32 |
The reasons for wetland loss | 39 |
Improving Wetland Conservation | 47 |
Action to strengthen wetland conservation | 84 |
Acronyms | 95 |
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action activities Africa agencies agricultural assessment awareness Banc d'Arguin Bangladesh benefits Chapter coastal zone communities contribute countries dams degradation delta developing world development assistance Dioros diversity downstream ecological economic ecosys effective environment environmental estuaries eutrophication example fish fisheries flood floodplain freshwater marshes functions funds grazing groundwater habitat Hadejia river harvest human hydrological identified impact improve increase institutions irrigation IUCN Kafue Lake land legislation Mali managing wetlands mangroves ment million National Park national wetland natural resources natural wetland needs NGOs Niger Niger delta nutrients Pantanal peatlands planning policies pollution population priorities problems production programme protected areas protected wetlands Ramsar Convention reduced region rice river basin rural development season sediment species Sri Lanka Sundarbans sustainable swamp forest tion tional tive tropical Uganda value of wetlands Wadden Sea waterfowl wetland conservation wetland ecosystems wetland loss wetland management wetland resources wetland systems wildlife Zambia