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Sustainable management of wetlands [electronic resource] : biodiversity and beyond / editors, Jyoti Parikh, Hemant Datye.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wetland conservation.
- Wetland ecology.
- Wetland management.
- Wetlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (429 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary study of wetlands, which unites the natural science perspective with strong social concerns and economic and other approaches in order to design a practical national wetlands conservation strategy and action plan. The contributors argue that an important part of any long-term strategy for protecting wetlands must involve local users and incorporate traditional knowledge. The book makes a strong case for the coordinated management of wetlands and outlines various social, economic and ecological indicators which can be used to assess the diver
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Message by P V Jayakrishnan; Message by Walter Reid; Preface; Introduction; 1 - Overview of Indian Wetlands; 2 - Wetland Mapping: A Remote-Sensing Perspective; 3 - Coral Reef Ecosystem; 4 - Mangrove Ecosystems of India: Status, Management and Policy; 5 - Wetlands and River Systems: Some Experiments in Their Ecodevelopment Planning and Integration; 6 - An Approach to Indicators for Wetland Planning, Monitoring and Policy; 7 - Economic Assessment and Wetland Management; 8 - Salient Features of the Ecosystem of the Keoladeo National Park
- 9 - People's Participation in Wetland Conservation through Conservation Education: A Case Study of Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur10 - The Valuation of Biodiversity within Protected Areas: Alternative Approaches and a Case Study; 11 - The Need and Approach for a Wetland Protected Area Network in India; 12 - Developing a National Wetland Strategy; About the Editors and Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42507-2
- 9786612425073
- 81-321-0366-1
- OCLC:
- 551205957
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