Routledge Handbook of Wetlands

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-11381-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1110 g

Reihe: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

This handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from across the environmental and social sciences.

Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented global interest in wetlands and the critical role they play in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services such as carbon storage, flood mitigation, as well as their direct benefits for people and society that include the provision of food, clean water and a range of cultural services. This Routledge Handbook of Wetlands brings together a wide range of perspectives from social and environmental disciplines, and voices from different wetland stakeholders from the global north and south, to present an assessment of our current understanding of wetlands, their environmental significance, and their place in society and policy. A recurring theme of the book is an exploration of how our current knowledge of wetlands, that is often fragmented along traditional disciplinary lines, can be brought together to enable a more integrated, interdisciplinary and social-ecological conceptualisation that aligns more closely with real-world complex challenges, and which offers new directions in wetland management for sustainable development.

This handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of wetland management, environmental science, water resource management, conservation ecology, environmental humanities and sustainable development.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Alan

Maddock, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of contributors ix

PART I

Introduction 1

1 Introduction 3

Alan Dixon and Ian Maddock

PART II

Wetlands and the environment 9

2 Wetlands, ecology and landscapes 11

Chris Joyce

3 Wetlands: hydrological processes and impacts 26

Vania Rosolen, Lucas Moreira Furlan, and Cesar Augusto Moreira

4 Wetland ecohydrology 38

Mark D. Dixon, W. Carter Johnson, and Beth A. Middleton

5 Flooding in riverine landscapes and wetlands 54

Melissa Parsons and Martin C. Thoms

6 Wetlands and climate change 65

Rebekah Grieger, Jaiden Johnston- Bates, and Samantha J. Capon

7 Wetland Soils 79

Vanessa N.L. Wong, Luke M. Mosley, and Emily Leyden

8 Biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling in wetlands 94

Dominik Zak, Rasmus Jes Petersen, Carl Christian Hoffmann,

Joachim Audet, Mette Vodder Carstensen, Hans Estrup Andersen,

Brian Kronvang, and Hans Chr. Bruun Hansen

9 Biodiversity of wetlands and invertebrate communities 107

Christopher D. Williams

10 Carbon cycling in wetlands 122

Maria Elizabeth Hernandez and Maria L. Monge- Gonzalez

11 Paleoecology as a means of understanding wetland change 135

Peter A. Gell

12 Wetland plant zonation and succession 153

Keith R. Edwards

13 Wetlands and mammals 164

John Dutton

14 Wetlands and birds 177

Danielle Hinchcliffe and Ann Hodgson

PART III

Wetlands, people and society 191

15 Wetland change in the Anthropocene: drivers and solutions 193

Marinus L. Otte

16 Wetlands, water and ecosystem services 206

Matthew P. McCartney

17 Wetlands and culture 219

Mary Gearey and Rod Giblett

18 Wetland Archaeology: past, present and future 232

Benjamin Gearey, Aidan O’Sullivan, and Rosie Everett

19 Wetlands and gastronomy 248

Antonio Mateos Jimenez and Blanca Garcia Henche

20 Wetlands and gender: unpacking a complex relationship 262

Bryce Gallant, Sanjiv de Silva, Arunima Hakhu, and Deepa Joshi

21 Wetlands and education 274

Gema Sanchez- Emeterio and Beatriz Garcia Fernandez

22 Wetlands: a blessing and a curse for human health 288

Carmen Anthonj

23 Wetlands and agriculture 302

Thomas Marambanyika, Tatenda Musasa, Oshneck Mupepi, and Alan

Dixon

24 Wetlands, property rights, and land tenure 314

Morten Graversgaard

25 Wetlands and fisheries 328

Michael Akester and Mark Dubois

26 Wetlands and Palaeontology: a tool to promote rural development

through education 342

Irene Prieto and Jesus Marugan- Lobon

PART IV

Wetland assessment and management 357

27 Remote sensing of wetlands 359

Meghan Halabisky, Lisa- Maria Rebelo, and Mpho Sadiki

28 Wetlands, geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial modelling 374

Josie Lynch and Ian Maddock

29 Wetland ecosystem services assessment 389

Donovan C. Kotze, Mark Everard, and Robert J. McInnes

30 Economic and financial tools for identifying, assessing and capturing

wetland ecosystem values 404

Lucy Emerton

31 Assessing the contribution of wetlands to the contemporary carbon

budget and carbon markets 418

Pierre Taillardat, Jared Moore, and Sigit D. Sasmito

32 Wetlands and wastewater treatment 432

Jan Vymazal

33 Wetlands in contemporary international policy discourses 447

Ritesh Kumar

34 Wetlands, policy and the state 461

Emmah Mandishona and Tariro Kamuti

35 Wetlands and landscape approaches 472

Alan Dixon and Adrian Wood

36 Wetland restoration and rewilding 487

Carl D. Sayer, Oliver van Biervliet, Reagan Pearce, and Teddy B.

Mills

37 Wetlands and social- ecological resilience 502

Rachael Carrie

Index 516

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Dixon is Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Science and the Environment at the University of Worcester, UK. He is the co-editor of Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa (Routledge, 2013) and co-author of Africa: Diversity and Development (Routledge, 2023).

Ian Maddock is Honorary Professor of River Science in the School of Science and the Environment at the University of Worcester, UK. He is the co- author of Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach (2013).