Routledge Handbook of Wetlands

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-11381-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 578 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

This handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from across the environmental and social sciences.

Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented global interest in wetlands and the critical role they play in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services such as carbon storage, flood mitigation, as well as their direct benefits for people and society that include the provision of food, clean water and a range of cultural services. This Routledge Handbook of Wetlands brings together a wide range of perspectives from social and environmental disciplines, and voices from different wetland stakeholders from the global north and south, to present an assessment of our current understanding of wetlands, their environmental significance, and their place in society and policy. A recurring theme of the book is an exploration of how our current knowledge of wetlands, that is often fragmented along traditional disciplinary lines, can be brought together to enable a more integrated, interdisciplinary and social-ecological conceptualisation that aligns more closely with real-world complex challenges, and which offers new directions in wetland management for sustainable development.

This handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of wetland management, environmental science, water resource management, conservation ecology and sustainable development.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Alan

Maddock, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: INTRODUCTION  1.      Introduction     PART 2: WETLANDS AND THE ENVIRONMENT  2.  Wetlands, ecology and landscapes   3.     Wetlands: hydrological processes and impacts  4.     Wetland ecohydrology   5.    Flooding in riverine landscapes and wetlands   6.      Wetlands and climate change  7.      Wetland soils   8.      Biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling of wetlands  9.     Biodiversity of wetlands and invertebrate communities  10.   Carbon cycling in wetlands  11.  Paleoecology as a means of understanding wetland change  12.    Wetland plant zonation and succession  13.    Wetlands and mammals   14.  Wetlands and birds  PART 3: WETLANDS, PEOPLE AND SOCIETY   15.    Wetland change in the Anthropocene: drivers and solutions  16.    Wetlands, water and ecosystem services    17.    Wetlands and culture   18.    Wetland Archaeology: past, present and future  19.    Wetlands and gastronomy   20.    Wetlands and gender: unpacking a complex relationship    21.    Wetlands and education   22.    Wetlands: a blessing and a curse for human health  23.   Wetlands and agriculture  24.    Wetlands, property rights, and land tenure  25.    Wetlands and fisheries  26.    Wetlands and Palaeontology: a tool to promote rural development through education   PART 4: WETLAND ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT   27.    Remote sensing of wetlands  28.    Wetlands, geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial modelling  29.    Wetland ecosystem services assessment  30.    Economic and financial tools for identifying, assessing and capturing wetland ecosystem values  31.    Assessing the contribution of wetlands to the contemporary carbon budget and carbon markets   32.    Wetlands and wastewater treatment  33.    Wetlands in contemporary international policy discourses  34.    Wetlands, policy and the state   35.    Wetlands and landscape approaches   36.    Wetland restoration and rewilding   37.    Wetlands and social-ecological resilience

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Dixon is Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Science and the Environment at the University of Worcester, UK. He is the co-editor of Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa (Routledge, 2013) and co-author of Africa: Diversity and Development (Routledge, 2023).

Ian Maddock is Professor of River Science in the School of Science and the Environment at the University of Worcester, UK. He is the co-author of Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach (2013).