Coastal Wetlands Restoration: Public Perception and Community Development

ISBN-13: 9780367863081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Hiromi Yamashita

Opis

This book examines a wide range of innovative approaches for coastal wetlands restoration and explains how we should use use both academic research and practitioners’ findings to influence learning, practice, policy, and social change.

Spis treści

1. Studying social perceptions of risk and benefits of coastal wetland restorations: Its importance and complexities  2. Coastal wetland restoration in the world: Needs, challenges and benefits. Case Study A. 3. To enable communities to engage with the biggest European tidal flat and saltmarsh restoration project  4. People’s perceptions towards the Steart Marshes Creation Project through stakeholder interviews and questionnaires. Case Study B.  5. Local power through the Mangrove Rehabilitation Project in Kuala Gula, Malaysia  6. Community perceptions towards the risks and benefits of a mangrove restoration project: Learning from a case study in Malaysia. Case Study C.  7. The Ago Bay experience from a local government perspective  8. Creating the first tidal flat restoration project in Japan in Ago Bay  9. Tidal flat restoration projects in Shima City and citizens’ perceptions  10. Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration and community development for the future

O autorze

Hiromi Yamashita is a professor at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan, visiting associate professor at Nagoya University Graduate School of Environmental Sciences, Japan, visiting associate professor, University of Cambridge, UK, and advisory board member for the Ramsar Regional Centre-East Asia.