Multiuse Wetlands Governance

Challenges and Institutional Choices
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-59896-3
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

The Ramsar Convention was established in 1971 to ensure the conservation and wise use of wetlands across the world. India joined the Convention in 1982, however, in the past 50 years, despite Ramsar’s incredible achievements, the threat to wetlands across the globe, including India, has not diminished. This book studies the governance of multiuse wetlands in India.

The volume provides an exhaustive analysis of rural, peri-urban, and urban human-made wetlands to establish the relevance of institutional design and the effective role of authority in governing multiuse wetland ecosystem services. The author argues that the most challenging task in governing wetlands is to frame institutional choices that users and non-users comprehend, and agree to pursue under alternative property rights regimes.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book provides a broad look into the causes and consequences of wetland ecosystem degradation and offers insights into improved sustainable management systems for different types of multiuse wetlands. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of environmental studies, sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, and agricultural, natural, and environmental resource economics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marothia, Dinesh K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. A Synthesis of Institutional Approaches for Analyzing Multiuse Wetlands Governance 3. Wetland Diversity, Water-Wetland-Agriculture Interactions and Ecosystem Services 4. Ratanpur Wetland Complex: The Existential Crisis 5. Restoration Journey of Lake Vivekananda: Ecological Gain or Loss 6. Tanks and Tank Irrigation: Challenges of Institutions and Collective Action Restitution 7. Analyzing Self-Organized and Self–Governed Dabri Irrigation System 8. Culture Fisheries in Multiuse Wetlands under Alternative Property Rights Regimes 9. Emerging Policy, Governance and Research Issues

Über Autor(innen)

Dinesh K. Marothia is President, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (Mumbai, India), Member Technical Advisory Board of Global EverGreening Alliance-an international collaborative platform to Restore South Asia and Coordinator, Centre for Integrated Natural Resources Management, National Institute of Ecology, Raipur/Delhi/Jaipur.