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International Wetland Policy and Management Issues

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Wetlands are among the world’s most important environmental resources; yet remain among the world’s least understood and most seriously abused assets. Of all global systems, wetlands are the source of some of today’s most contentious, difficult, and politically sensitive environmental and social questions. Increasingly, in both the developed world and developing world, the future of wetlands seems to depend on economic, social, and political development trends and the outcomes of litigation, and legislative/administrative debate rather than natural processes. Yet natural processes result in ecosystem functions that have real economic value to society which can be expressed in terms of yield over time, such as fisheries production, maintenance of water quality, and flood damage aversion. The purpose of this book is to examine the international environmental policy implications of wetland use and management conflicts.

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Smardon, R. (2009). International Wetland Policy and Management Issues. In: Sustaining the World's Wetlands. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49429-6_1

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