The Wetlands Handbook, 2 Volume Set (eBook)

Edward Maltby, Tom Barker (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
800 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-1582-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Forty-two chapters by international experts from a wide range of
disciplines make The Wetlands Handbook the essential tool
for those seeking comprehensive understanding of the subject. A
departure from more traditional treatises, this text examines
freshwater wetland ecosystem science from the fundamentals to
issues of management and policy.

Introductory chapters address the scope and significance of
wetlands globally for communities, culture and biodiversity.
Subsequent sections deal with processes underpinning wetland
functioning, how wetlands work, their uses and values for humans
and nature, their sensitivity to external impacts, and how they may
be restored. The text is illustrated by numerous examples,
emphasising functional and holistic approaches to wetland
management, including case studies on the wise use and
rehabilitation of wetlands in farmed, urban, industrial and other
damaged environments, highlighting the long-term benefits of
multiple use. The Wetlands Handbook will provide an
invaluable reference for researchers, managers, policy-makers and
students of wetland sciences.

Autor

Edward Maltby is Professor of Wetland Science, Water and Ecosystem Management and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research (SWIMMER) at the University of Liverpool, UK. Tom Barker is an ecologist at SWIMMER specialising in catchment relationships with ecosystems, including carbon sequestration and physico-chemical dynamics, particularly in lakes and wetlands.

Rezensionen

"A colossal achievement ... .It's impossible to do justice to such a work in a few sentences. There are 7 sections, 43 chapters, 72 contributors in all and an index that expands to 51 pages. Hardly a topic this reviewer looked for is not present ... .This book is a must." (Journal of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation, April 2010)

"Genuflecting to no tired metaphors, this is a refreshing
collection of cross-disciplinary voices that compel new ways of
seeing and thinking about the still undiscovered Caribbean"

-Patricia Mohammed, University of the West Indies, St
Augustine

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Ökologie / Süßwasser • Biowissenschaften • Freshwater Ecology • Life Sciences • Ökologie / Süßwasser • Umweltmanagement
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-1582-X / 144431582X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-1582-0 / 9781444315820