Routledge Handbook of Wetlands

Alan Dixon, Ian Maddock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040400296
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Part I Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• Part II Wetlands and the Environment
• 2 Wetlands, Ecology and Landscapes
• 3 Wetlands: Hydrological Processes and Impacts
• 4 Wetland Ecohydrology
• 5 Flooding in Riverine Landscapes and Wetlands
• 6 Wetlands and Climate Change
• 7 Wetland Soils
• 8 Biogeochemistry and Nutrient Cycling IN Wetlands
• 9 Biodiversity of Wetlands and Invertebrate Communities
• 10 Carbon Cycling in Wetlands
• 11 Paleoecology as a Means of Understanding Wetland Change
• 12 Wetland Plant Zonation and Succession
• 13 Wetlands and Mammals
• 14 Wetlands and Birds
• PART III Wetlands, People and Society
• 15 Wetland Change in the Anthropocene: Drivers and Solutions
• 16 Wetlands, Water and Ecosystem Services
• 17 Wetlands and Culture
• 18 Wetland Archaeology: Past, Present and Future
• 19 Wetlands and Gastronomy
• 20 Wetlands and Gender: Unpacking a Complex Relationship
• 21 Wetlands and Education
• 22 Wetlands: A Blessing and a Curse for Human Health
• 23 Wetlands and Agriculture
• 24 Wetlands, Property Rights, and Land Tenure
• 25 Wetlands and Fisheries
• 26 Wetlands and Palaeontology: A Tool to Promote Rural Development Through Education
• Part IV Wetland Assessment and Management
• 27 Remote Sensing of Wetlands
• 28 Wetlands, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Modelling
• 29 Wetland Ecosystem Services Assessment
• 30 Economic and Financial tools for Identifying, Assessing and Capturing Wetland Ecosystem Values
• 31 Assessing the Contribution of Wetlands to the Contemporary Carbon Budget and Carbon Markets
• 32 Wetlands and Wastewater Treatment
• 33 Wetlands in Contemporary International Policy Discourses
• 34 Wetlands, Policy and the State
• 35 Wetlands and Landscape Approaches
• 36 Wetland Restoration and Rewilding
• 37 Wetlands and Social-Ecological Resilience
• Index