Wetlands, a Celebration of Life
Wetlands, a Celebration of Life

Author: Kenneth W. Cox

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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The Canadian Wetlands Task Force was established in 1991 as a result of a 1990 forum on sustaining wetlands. This final report provides recommendations on wetland policy and programs; partnerships; agricultural policy and programs; land tax, assessment, and finance issues; environmental codes and ethics; communications and education; and research, assessments, and audits. It suggests actions to be taken in these areas and challenges for the future. Also includes a list of recommendations from the 1990 forum and wetland programs in Canada.

Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems
Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems

Author: Jagtar Bhatti

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-12-20

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 142003779X

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Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global climate change on intensively constructed or reconstructed ecosystems, focusing on land use changes in relation to forestry, agriculture, and wetlands including peatlands. The book begins by discussing the fragility of eco

Wetlands and Government
Wetlands and Government

Author: Pauline Lynch-Stewart

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this paper is to describe Canada's frameworks for wetland conservation. It first describes the policy framework, looking at federal, provincial, and industry sector policies on wetlands. It then reviews the legislative framework, summarizing federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdiction & statutes concerning wetlands. The final section summarizes common themes & features found in wetland policies, discusses their evolution, and indicates issues for further study. Appendices include a discussion of wetland definitions and a summary of wetland policies & statutes by jurisdiction.

This Tender Place
This Tender Place

Author: Laurie Lawlor

Publisher: Terrace Books

Published: 2005-10-17

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 029921463X

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After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in southeastern Wisconsin—a landscape of abundant and sometimes inaccessible beauty that has often been ignored, misunderstood, and threatened by human destruction. In her decade-long personal wetland journey, she examines the sky, delves underwater, and peers between sedges in all seasons and all times of day. This Tender Place is a celebration of nature, the elements, and humanity. From the wetland’s genesis during the ice age to its survival in the twenty-first century, Lawlor chronicles the universal ties among people, wild places, and healthy wetlands. An engaging and deeply intimate record, This Tender Place is at its heart a story of refuge and renewal refracted through the lens of life within the wetlands—one of the most productive, yet most endangered, ecosystems in the world.

Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect
Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect

Author: R. Lal

Publisher: ASA-CSSA-SSSA

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780891188506

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This book is about the concept of the Greenhouse Effect is more than a century old, but today the observed and predicted climate changes. This second edition of Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect is essential reading for understandingthe processes, properties, and practices affecting the soil carbon pool and its dynamics.

Advances in Urban Stormwater and Agricultural Runoff Source Controls
Advances in Urban Stormwater and Agricultural Runoff Source Controls

Author: J. Marsalek

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 940100532X

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Notwithstanding past achievements, flood damage continues to rise throughout the world as the magnitudes of floods increase, partly as a result of poor land management and partly by climate change, growing populations and continuing development in flood-prone areas, and the aging and deterioration of flood defences. One of the major goals of water management is the protection of society from floods. That issue is addressed here in terms of such broad issues as flood analysis, flood impact, non-structural and structural flood management measures. Non-structural measures focus on flood plain management, flood insurance, flood forecasting and warning, and emergency measures during floods. Structural measures focus on catchment management, embankments and flood reservoirs. Post-flood measures are also discussed. Future planning of flood management should be based on a clear understanding of the effectiveness interventions and their impacts on river catchment ecosystems.

Wetlands
Wetlands

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Made up of a bibliography and a directory of contacts.

English Wetlands
English Wetlands

Author: Mary Gearey

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 3030413063

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This book argues that to understand wetlands is to understand human development. Using case studies drawn from three English wetlands, the book moves between empirical research and scholarship to interrogate how these particular ecosystems have played an essential part in the development of our contemporary society; yet inhabit a strange place in our national psyche. Chapters address a range of cultural and environmental wetland concerns. Consideration is given to: the ways in which we have revered, engineered and renaturalised these landscapes throughout history; English wetlands as spaces of beauty, creativity, reflection, rejuvenation and multi-species interactions; accelerating climate change in an age of neoliberalism. The final chapter then is a reflection on our collective lives together alongside other species, exploring what sustainability transitions might mean for human-wetland relationships.