This book synthesizes vivid details on wetlands of Birbhum district West Bengal, India. Wetland inventory and their characterization, along with assessment of limnological and pedological conditions are maiden voyage by authors.Detail taxonomic profile of macrophytic communities with the unique description on utilitarian aspects strengthen this book.Conservation and management issues of these wetland addressed herewith seek major concern for future work.This book will act as the brick in further research covering multifarious aspects of wetlands both nation and worldwide.

According to United States Fish and Wildlife "Wetlands are lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water". Although wetlands constitute a very interesting feature of the landscape they occupy about 6 percent of the total surface of the Earth. The importance of wetland to global carbon cycle, water balance, wildlife biodiversity and human food production is much greater than their proportional surface area on Earth would suggest. The UNCED, i.e. the United Nations Conference on...