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Rather than a marginal part of protected area management, this book shows that freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for conserving inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas (PAs), including rivers, wetlands, swamps, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries.
List of contents
1. An introduction to issues for managing freshwater ecosystems in protected areas 2. Freshwater ecosystem types and extents 3. Freshwater ecological principles 4. Defining and enhancing freshwater protected areas 5. What is different about freshwater protected areas? 6. Managing threats to freshwater systems within protected areas 7. Conserving freshwater species in protected areas 8. Managing specific freshwater ecosystems 9. Freshwater protected area corridors 10. Planning ecologically: the importance of management at catchment scales 11. Planning for the protection and management of freshwater ecosystems inside and outside protected areas 12. Managing freshwater protected areas in the global landscape 13. Climate change and the management of freshwater protected areas 14. Freshwater ecosystems in protected areas: a synthesis
About the author
C. Max Finlayson is Director of the Institute for Land, Water and Society and Professor for Ecology and Biodiversity at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and the Ramsar Chair for the Wise Use of Wetlands at IHE Delft, The Netherlands. He is a visiting Professor at the Institute for Wetland Research in the China Academy of Forestry.
Angela H. Arthington is an Emeritus Professor in the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University, Australia.
Jamie Pittock is an Associate Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University, Australia.
Summary
Rather than a marginal part of protected area management, this book shows that freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for conserving inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas (PAs), including rivers, wetlands, swamps, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries.
