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Wetlands

2021
Abstract This chapter focuses on Ottoman policies to manage the exploitation of wetlands in the Tigris-Euphrates alluvial plain. In the early modern period, ever-more powerful empires engaged in ambitious wetland drainage projects in the name of improvement. This chapter offers a counterexample of an empire that used its bureaucratic and
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Wetland Creation: A Strategy for Mitigating Wetland Loss by Restoring Wetlands to Landscapes

2017
Owing to an ever-growing human population and the subsequent need for land development in India and other parts of South Asia, wetlands are bound to get adversely impacted. The outcome of adverse impacts may vary from wetland degradation to wetland loss, and mitigation is an effective strategy in minimizing such damages.
Ketan S. Tatu, James T. Anderson
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Wetland archaeology and wetland management

1994
Wetlands of different types and origins may be managed for a variety of purposes, but how often will their archaeological dimension be considered? This paper examines the significance and ubiquity of wetland archaeology, and considers how the common threats to wetlands affect their archaeological component.
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Wetland inventories for wetland carbon assessments

This Technical Report was prepared by the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands under Task 2.1 of the STRP Workplan 2023-2025 on ‘Wetland mapping and inventories to catalyse greater use of available methodologies for wetland carbon assessment’.
Stephan Glatzel, Siobhan Fennessy, Ulrich Schwarz, Ronny Dobbelsteijn, Lammert Hilarides, Hans Joosten   +5 more
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Wetlands

We introduced (1) the main definitions associated with wetlands, their common components, major types and their characteristics, and their global distribution and extent; (2) the main biogeochemical cycles of nutrients within wetlands, especially as they are influenced by changes in sediment redox potential associated with inundations; (3) the main ...
K. Garg Jay, Ravi Shankar Dwivedi
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From the wetland to the wetland roof

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023
Alena Vargova, Marian Vertal
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Wetland Losses

2004
Claassen, Roger, Claassen, Roger
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A wetland …is a wetland…is a wetland

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 1988
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When Is a Wetland Not a Wetland?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2003
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Banking in wetlands

Environmental Science & Technology, 1995
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