An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation
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About the Book
Bill Streever, author of Bringing Back the Wetlands and numerous technical articles about wetland restoration and creation, worked for two years to bring together this collection of papers. Authors ranging from private landowners to government managers to scientists present regional overviews, case studies, and discussions of various issues. Regional overviews cover areas as small as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to areas as large as Australia and Africa. Case studies range from relatively small projects, such as rehabilitation of damage caused by wheel ruts in the high arctic, to much larger projects, such as attempts to rehabilitate thousands of hectares of Northern Territory wetlands in Australia. Seedbank ecology, economics, remote sensing, community involvement, the role of the wetland consulting industry, and other issues are discussed. In an effort to synthesize information from around the world, Joy Zedler presents a model that allows comparison of projects and may lead to better predictability of project outcomes. In An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation, authors describe planting, engineered structures, prescribed flooding, excavation, and other rehabilitation methods, from Israel to New Zealand to the Netherlands and elsewhere. For the first time, one volume offers an impression of the magnitude and diversity of the field of wetland rehabilitation around the globe.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9780792357247
EAN: 9780792357247
Publisher Date: 31 Jul 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Continuations: English
Dewey: 333.7
Height: 254 mm
Is LeadingArticle: Y
LCCN: 99022955
No of Pages: 338
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 20 mm
ISBN-10: 0792357248
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
Acedemic Level: English
Book Type: English
Depth: 19
Edition: 1999
Illustration: Y
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
PrintOnDemand: N
Series Title: English
Width: 165 mm