Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management

ISBN-13: 9780128178034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

PETER GELL

Spis treści

1 Introduction - to the book and the Ramsar Convention
2 Ramsar Governance and Processes at the International Level
3 Ramsar at the national level: application and incorporation into domestic law
4 The extent and distribution of the world's wetlands
5 The Distribution of the World's Internationally Important Wetlands and their Contribution to
Global Protected Area Goals and Aichi Biodiversity Target 11
6 Linking Wetland Ecological Processes with the Delivery of Ecosystem Services
7 Ecosystem Services
8 The response of Wetlands to Long-Term Climate Change
9 What's Happening to the World's Wetlands
10 Cultural Landscapes: Human Impacts on Wetlands
11 Threats to wetlands: what's driving loss and degradation?
12 Wetland Monitoring: understanding variability and change in ecological condition
13 Trajectories in wetland condition: Setting Limits of Acceptable Change
14 Management effectiveness of wetland protected areas
15 Investing in Wetland Restoration: Practical Guidance and Looking Ahead
16 Human Culture and its evolving place in the Ramsar convention
17 International governance of water for biodiversity conservation
18 Climate Change and wetlands - vulnerability, adaptation, mitigation, resolutions and
scientific societies
19 Wetlands as social ecological systems: Bridging nature and society
20 Wetlands and Future Change - Implications and Opportunities for the Ramsar Convention