Building a sustainable future
Wetland Action has worked for over 25 years to support the sustainable management of wetlands in ways that enhance their environmental and development benefits. This has involved research and knowledge exchange to further an understanding that:
- Wetlands are social-ecological systems – places created by people-environment interactions.
- Wetlands are nested within catchment social-ecological systems, hence landscape approaches to wetland management are needed.
- Enhancing and sustaining wetland ecosystem services is critical if wetlands are to be valued, conserved and sustained.
- Local wetland users must be involved in their management.
By helping raise awareness of the value of wetlands and ways to manage them sustainably, Wetland Action ensures that these areas are seen more positively by all stakeholders, so that their future contribution to ecosystem services and people’s livelihoods is better assured.
Key Ideas:
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With global rises in temperature and the increasing unpredictability of rainfall, climate change has the potential to have a major impact on wetlands. However, wetlands can play a vital role in buffering the wider effects of climate change on the human population.
In many cases wetlands are seen as critical areas for conservation due their support of biodiversity, while in other cases they are recognised as important agro-development resources.
Wetlands are so valuable that they often attract major concentrations of people who derive their livelihoods from the resources wetlands sustain.
Wetlands provide a range of benefits and functions for people and the environment.
Quick Links:
Wetlands & Climate Change |
Wetlands & People |
Wetlands & Policy |
Wetlands & Eco Services
