Wetland management modeling in the frame of Ramsar convention

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Nereida López-Calatayud ◽  
Adriana Mercedes Márquez-Romance ◽  
Edilberto Guevara-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Wetland Management ◽  
Ramsar Convention

scholarly journals Policy considerations for managing wetlands under a changing climate

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Finlayson ◽  
S. J. Capon ◽  
D. Rissik ◽  
J. Pittock ◽  
G. Fisk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Wetland Condition ◽  
Ramsar Convention ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
The Face ◽  
Potential Adaptation ◽  
Wetland Policy

Drawing on the experience and lessons of wetland researchers and managers in Australia and New Zealand, we examined the implications of climate change for wetland policy and management, and identified potential adaptation responses and the information needed to support these. First, we considered wetland vulnerability to climate change, focusing on wetland exposure and sensitivity. We then outlined the existing policy context for dealing with climate change, with an emphasis on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. We then considered how the objectives and targets for wetland management can be set in the face of climate change, how management can be adapted to climate change given the uncertainties involved, and how we can monitor and evaluate wetland condition in the face of climate change. We concluded with a set of principles to guide adaptation of wetland conservation and management policy to climate change.

Harare’s Deteriorating Wetlands: Why Sound Policies and Legislations Are Not Enough

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham R. Matamanda ◽  
Innocent Chirisa ◽  
Billy B. Mukamuri ◽  
Privilege Kaduwo ◽  
Magret Mhlanga
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Ramsar Convention ◽  
Study Results

This article assesses the legal and institutional framework around governance of wetlands and wetland-related ecosystem services in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe (member of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands). A mixed research methodology, comprising review of literature, interviews, document analysis, and Geographical Information Systems, forms the key methodology used in this study. Results from analyzed data show that lack of a clear and harmonized legal and institutional framework is leading the Harare’s wetlands to rapidly shrink and affecting their ability to provide key ecosystem services, such as clean water, flood protection, recreational areas, and wildlife. In addition, both overlapping roles and functions among the various institutions and legislations are responsible for wetland management in Harare. Key recommendation emerging from the study points to the need to define clear boundaries and harmonization of key legislations to promote the sustainability of wetlands in Harare.

A Ramsar-wetland in suburbia: wetland management in an urbanised, industrialised area

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 771 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Kermode ◽  
H. Heijnis ◽  
H. Wong ◽  
A. Zawadzki ◽  
P. Gadd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Impacts ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Ramsar Convention ◽  
Lead And Zinc ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Wetland Complex ◽  
Ongoing Monitoring

Wetlands provide crucial services to support human populations and intrinsic environmental functioning. They are, therefore, recognised at higher-level global conservation treaties down to regional and local environmental management plans. Palaeorecords to understand preimpact conditions and ranges of natural variability are critical, alongside ongoing monitoring of ecosystem health for understanding important wetlands and determining long-term conservation strategies. They also enable effective analysis of human impacts. Towra Point Nature Reserve is an internationally significant wetland complex listed under multiple international conservation agreements, including the 1971 Ramsar Convention. It faces similar challenges to other coastal wetlands globally: sea level rise, changing shoreline conditions, and anthropogenic impacts. Its location within Sydney’s Botany Bay results in high potential for pollutants to enter the wetland complex. This makes ongoing monitoring of the ecosystem critically important. This study has found that arsenic, lead and zinc are relatively elevated in the southern part of the embayment, adjacent to an urban area, where concentrations are near to, or exceeding trigger levels (ANZECC/ARMCANZ 2000). In contrast, in the western part of the embayment contaminant levels are well below trigger values. We propose that these trigger levels should be adopted and incorporated into the Towra Point Plan of Management.

scholarly journals “Wise Use” in Watarase-yusuichi Creating New Value through the Integration of Stakeholders

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Mikiko Sugiura
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Ramsar Convention ◽  
Wise Use ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Innovative Action

Watarease-yusuichi, a man-made retarding basin, which has functioned as a flood control for about 100 years, entered a new phase in 2012 as a registered site under the Ramsar Convention. Through diversification of wetland use, despite the complexity of the root of the Convention’s “wise use,” Watarase-yusuichi represents a unique perspective on sustainable development so that wetlands can continue creating new value for human society. The emerging ecological function as the habitat for endangered fauna and flora exemplifies not only the universal paradigm shift in human involvement in the wetland’s use, but also the importance of the integration of stakeholders regarding the issues of wetland management as IRBM (the Integrated River Basin Management), which gives us more holistic perspective on a participatory and comprehensive approach to planning and management. Regarding the integration of stakeholders, despite the significant differences in original ideas on wetland management, it should be noted that five major types of stakeholders, including the local and scholarly communities, collaborated to device a future plan for Watarase-yusuichi through lengthy discussions. The several challenges remain in terms of “wise use” even after the successful designation under the Ramsar Convention. One of the difficulties is how to share a common goal or incentive among groups with different interests. Taking the advantage of wetland’s characteristics distinguished from other water-related facilities such as a multi-purpose dam reservoir, regular and innovative action should be taken, such as information dispatch from individuals.

Groundwater flow systems analysis on a regional and nation-wide scale in the Netherlands; the use of flow systems analysis in wetland management

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 375-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. H. Kloosterman ◽  
R. J. Stuurman ◽  
R. van der Meijden
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Groundwater Flow ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Flow System ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Groundwater Flow Systems ◽  
Flow Systems ◽  
Strong Relation

The project “National Groundwater Flow System Analysis” in The Netherlands was initiated in 1991 and will last until 1995. Financed by three Dutch Ministries, the project aims at the mapping of the regional groundwater flow systems to support policy makers at national levels and water/nature resources management. Much emphasis is put on biotic aspects such as the relation between groundwater and patterns in vegetation. The results are used in a detailed flow system analysis of the eco-hydrological valuable drainage basin of the brooks Beerze and Reusel in the southern parts of the country. In this study vegetation patterns and hydrological situations were analyzed in present and in historical settings to unravel the changes in the last decades leading to severe deterioration of habitats and wetlands. Historical data on flora from the beginning of this century on the basis of km-grid cells show a strong relation with the historical exfiltration areas where deep alkaline groundwaters rich in calcium-carbonate emerged. Agriculture and man-made changes to the natural drainage systems have led to diminishing nature values. Combining a sound understanding of the groundwater flow systems and the changes in the last decades produced a number of practical and viable measures to restore historical wetland settings and to preserve existing ones.

scholarly journals Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Y. Bataille ◽  
Sanna K. Malinen ◽  
Johanna Yletyinen ◽  
Nigel Scott ◽  
Philip O'B. Lyver
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Relational Values ◽  
Multi Level

scholarly journals The Wetland Contract as a Tool for Successful Wetland Governance: A Case Study of Ljubljansko Barje Nature Park, Slovenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 425
Author(s):  
Katarina Polajnar Horvat ◽  
Ales Smrekar
Keyword(s):  
Wetland Management ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Wetland Ecosystems ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
Ljubljansko Barje

Our research focuses on implementing multilevel governance of wetlands to achieve an effective participatory process and its overall positive effects on wetland ecosystems and their protection as well as on local sustainable development. The aim of the research is to develop a methodology for establishing the Wetland Contract, a voluntary agreement to foster sustainable management and development of wetlands, to ensure greater coordination and consensus building between various stakeholders involved in management and to limit conflicts between preservation issues and economic activities in wetlands. The Wetland Contract and the integration process for establishing it in Ljubljansko barje Nature Park proved itself able to overcome conflicts between institutional and legal jurisdiction and is showing itself to be a dynamic path capable of activating a desirable relationship between various interests and supporting new forms of multi-sectoral stakeholder participation in wetland management. It has also contributed to a dialogue and shared responsibility among stakeholders.

scholarly journals Wetlands in Ethiopia: Lessons From 20 years of Research, Policy and Practice

Wetlands ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dixon ◽  
Adrian Wood ◽  
Afework Hailu
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Wetland Use

AbstractThroughout sub-Saharan Africa wetlands provide ecosystem services that are critical to the development needs of many people. Local wetland use, however, is often at odds with broader national policy goals in which narratives of conservation and protection dominate, hence a recurring challenge is how to reconcile these tensions through the development of policies and field practice that deliver sustainable development. In this paper we examine the extent to which this challenge has been achieved in Ethiopia, charting the changes in wetlands policy and discourse over the last twenty years while reviewing the contribution of the multidisciplinary Ethiopian Wetlands Research Programme (EWRP) (1997–2000). Our analysis suggests that despite EWRP having a significant legacy in developing national interest in wetlands among research, government and non-governmental organisations, its more holistic social-ecological interpretation of wetland management remains neglected within a policy arena dominated by specific sectoral interests and little recognition of the needs of local people. In exploring the impacts at the local level, recent investigations with communities in Ilu Aba Bora Zone highlight adjustments in wetland use that famers attribute to environmental, economic and social change, but which also evidence the adaptive nature of wetland-based livelihoods.

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