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International Peat Society

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The International Peat Society (IPS) is a non-governmental, non-profit, multidisciplinary organization of scientific, industrial and regulatory members. As of 2013 it has 1,450 individual and institutional members from 36 countries. It was constituted in 1968 in Quebec, Canada. The IPS is registered in Finland where the IPS Secretariat is located. The Society will celebrate its half century in 2018.

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  1. School of Geography, The University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK

    Jack Rieley

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  1. Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity, Charles Sturt University Inst. for Land, Water and Society, Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. Great Somerford, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

    Mark Everard

  3. Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, UNESCO-IHE Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetland & Environment Ltd. , Littleworth, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. USGS National Wetlands Research Center , Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Charles Sturt University , Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Rieley, J. (2016). International Peat Society. In: Finlayson, C., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_146-2

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