Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice

ISBN-13: 9780128239810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Christopher Craft

Spis treści

I. Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Definitions 3. Ecological Theory and Restoration 4. Consideration of the Landscape

II. Restoration of Freshwater Wetlands 5. Inland Marshes 6. Forested Wetlands 7. Peatlands

III. Restoration of Estuarine Wetlands 8. Tidal Marshes 9. Mangroves

IV. From Theory to Practice 10. Measuring Success: Performance Standards and Trajectories of Ecosystem Development 11. Case Studies  12. Restoration on a Grand Scale

V. Future of Wetland Restoration 13. Population Growth and Global Food Demand

VI. Recommended References (Textbooks)

O autorze

Christopher Craft is the Janet Duey Professor of Rural Land Policy, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington and University of Georgia Marine Institute, where he teaches courses in Environmental Science, Applied Ecology, Wetlands Ecology and Restoration Ecology. His introduction to wetland science began in 1983 when, as a new Ph.D. student, he began studying the ecosystem development of tidal marshes that had been created and restored along the North Carolina coast in the 1960s and 1970s. Since that time, Professor Craft has worked on restoration projects in freshwater wetlands of the Florida Everglades, Upper Klamath Lake (Oregon) and the agricultural Midwest, and in estuarine wetlands of the southeast (Sapelo Island, GA), New England and New York-New Jersey harbor. Professor Craft served as President of the Society of Wetland Scientists from 2008-2009. In 2012, he received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research, given annually by the Environmental Law Institute and six U.S. governmental agencies