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The Second Warning to Humanity – Providing a Context for Wetland Management and Policy
- Source :
- Wetlands. 39:1-5
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- The Second Warning to Humanity provides a clarion call for wetland researchers and practitioners given the loss and degradation of wetlands, the declining availability of fresh water, and the likely consequences of climate change. A coordinated response and approach to policies has the potential to prevent further degradation and support resilient wetlands that can provide a range of ecosystem services, including buffering wetlands from climate impacts, and avoiding major climate amplification from temperature-induced release of additional carbon dioxide and methane while addressing the causes and consequences of global climate change. The Warning to Humanity also provides an opportunity for organisations such as the Society of Wetland Scientists to raise the profile of wetlands and to initiate a discussion on how to respond and change direction from the destructive development trajectory that led to wetland loss and degradation. It also provides a signal for a reappraisal of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands as an international mechanism for ensuring the sustainability of wetlands.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecology
Ramsar Convention
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Global warming
Climate change
Context (language use)
Wetland
01 natural sciences
Ecosystem services
Sustainability
Environmental Chemistry
Business
Landscape ecology
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19436246 and 02775212
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Wetlands
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a5b07a3a88af2c980a37eccfca4e3e16