Wetlands Conservation: Current Challenges and Future Strategies

Wetlands are essential for biodiversity, water purification, groundwater replenishment, flood control, storm protection, sediment retention, recreation, and tourism. Human exploitation has caused significant degradation and loss. Wetlands Conservation: Current Challenges and Future Strategies provides an overview of approaches for addressing degradation and its effects on ecosystem services, human health, and other ecosystems. It highlights the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural importance of wetlands, identifies factors responsible for conservation initiatives' failure, discusses the role of community-based management, and explores Ramsar wetlands conservation and its impacts worldwide.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2021
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Wetlands are vital ecosystems that provide a wide range of services, including biodiversity conservation, water purification, groundwater replenishment, flood control, storm protection, sediment retention, recreation, and tourism. However, human exploitation of natural resources over the past two centuries has led to significant degradation and loss of wetlands. Despite the Ramsar Convention of 1971, which aimed to conserve and manage wetlands, many wetland sites remain inadequately conserved or managed. Maintaining the ecological balance and equilibrium of wetlands requires a clear understanding of their vital role, the challenges they face, and the policies enacted for their protection. Wetlands Conservation: Current Challenges and Future Strategies provides an up-to-date overview of approaches for addressing wetland degradation and its effects on ecosystem services, human health, and other ecosystems. The book summarizes both current and emerging management strategies, trends, and policies regarding wetlands protection around the world. The authors, experts in the field, provide accurate scientific information on wetlands while discussing the effects of climate change, global warming, modernization in agriculture, and other key topics. Designed to assist in the development of future solutions for wetlands conservation and management strategies, this important volume highlights the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural importance of wetlands. It identifies the factors responsible for the failure of many conservation initiatives and describes the natural and anthropogenic factors of wetlands degradation. The book also discusses the role of community-based wetlands conservation and management and explores Ramsar wetlands conservation and its impacts worldwide. Wetlands play a crucial role in maintaining the health and well-being of our planet and its inhabitants. By understanding the challenges they face and implementing effective conservation strategies, we can ensure that these valuable ecosystems continue to provide the services they need for generations to come.

Weight: 752g
Dimension: 251 x 173 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119692683