Managing Wetlands

An Ecological Economics Approach

Edited by R. Kerry Turner, Professor of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences and Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and the Programme in Environmental Decision Making (PEDM), University of East Anglia, UK, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, ICREA Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Roy Brouwer, Senior Economist, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The extensive destruction of wetlands across Europe represents a significant loss of biodiversity along with its related economic, cultural, ethical and scientific benefits. This volume addresses the critical issues surrounding this environmental change process, employing a range of analytical methods drawn from a variety of disciplines which bridge the social and natural science divide.

这本书是一个受欢迎的,非常实用,广告dition to the existing literature on wetland management, and economic aspects of wetlands. It provides a useful and easily comprehensible overview of the ecological economic approach, how to apply it in the context of wetland and water management, and how to use its findings to support decision-making and influence policy across a wide range of wetland management situations and issues. Although containing a level of methodological and theoretical rigour, which will clearly appeal to an academic audience, both the clarity with which the book expresses quite complex tools and methods and its firm grounding in political and social reality mean that it has wide relevance and utility to the practitioners, managers and policymakers from a range of disciplines who are engaged in wetland management and decision-making.’
– Lucy Emerton, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal