Carsten Krieger celebrates the magic and mystery of our peatlands. They are full of contradictions: bleak and beautiful, wet and dry, living and dead. They are time capsules, holding a record of Irish history going back thousands of years. And they...Lasīt vairāk
It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from both environmental and social sciences. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of wetland management, environme...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953656)
Although swamps today are recognized as one of the richest and most prolific natural systems on Earth, they have long held a mysterious and tenuous place in Americas history and culture. Ernest Hemingway equated them with madness and death i...Lasīt vairāk
The diversity of wetland bio resources is crucial for addressing global challenges they face. Despite being vital for biodiversity, water quality and flood control, wetlands suffer from human-induced degradation. This compendium addresses conserva...Lasīt vairāk
A richly illustrated birding guide to the wetlands and developed areas of the California Delta.From Sacramento to Stockton, the Delta gathers the waters of inner California to create a lush estuary and a haven for birds. In Birds...Lasīt vairāk
Beneath their huge and spectacular skies, the Fenlands of East Anglia are in dynamic flux. Emerging as dense woodland from the retreating glaciers of the last ice age, the forests were drenched beneath a rising water table to become a vast, impene...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781394235247)
A comprehensive survey of exemplary wetlands that highlights their importance for local livelihoods as well as for global biodiversity Covering 17 different regions, Wetlands of Tropical and Subtropical Asia and Africa provides de...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the second volume of a compendium of the global distribution of some 3500 aquatic macrophyte species occurring in inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies worldwide, highlighting aspects of their ecology including endemism, world ra...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an in-depth examination of wetland ecosystems, delving into their intricacies from three critical perspectiveslimnological, bio-geochemical, and economic. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, seamlessly merging insights from l...Lasīt vairāk
This book studies the governance of multiuse wetlands in India. It provides an exhaustive analysis of rural, peri-urban and urban human-made wetlands. The Ramsar Convention was established in 1971 to ensure the conservation and wise...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Wetlands: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781394235209)
Wetlands provide numerous ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, water filtration, nutrient retention and flood mitigation, thereby maintaining the ecological health of the surrounding ecosystems. As the understanding of their importance...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an overview of the history of this site and the complex effects of the hydrological and ecological changes through the landscape changes, vegetation adaptation, biovector contamination, and ultimately habitat restoration. Big Me...Lasīt vairāk
Emerging Developments in Constructed Wetlands aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on recent trends and advances in the domain of constructed wetlands. The book contains consolidated insights into distinctive research areas wi...Lasīt vairāk
Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow wat...Lasīt vairāk
This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities. Urban wetlands are very valuable blue-green infrastructure spaces for human settlements, yet they are disappearing as a result of urbanization. This phenomenon is worldwide,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Hertfordshire Press, ISBN-13: 9781912260676)
Broadland, or the Broads , is a unique area of wetlands in eastern Norfolk and north-eastern Suffolk. This is the first new academic study of Broadland for many decades and uses the latest research to explore the making of...Lasīt vairāk
Blue carbon ecosystems are of tremendous value toward the utilization of high-salinity water, such as seawater, as well as hyper-saline soils, and salt-tolerant biota for the production of biomass, for food, feed, fiber, fuel, other economic purpo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560409)
A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley,...Lasīt vairāk
Mangroves are among the most productive and diverse ecosystems on Earth, providing a range of ecosystem services that benefit millions of people and support global sustainability goals. However, mangroves are also highly vulnerable to climate...Lasīt vairāk
What counts as a wetland, especially in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth? In the name of agriculture, urban growth and disease control, humans have drained, filled or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the worlds wetlands ov...Lasīt vairāk
