The Ramsar Technical Reports series

Ramsar Technical Reports are designed to publish, chiefly through electronic media, technical notes, reviews and reports on wetland ecology, conservation, wise use and management, as an information support service to Contracting Parties and the wider wetland community in support of implementation of the Convention.

In particular, the series includes the detailed technical background reviews and reports prepared by the Convention's Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) at the request of Contracting Parties, which would previously have been made available in most instances only as "Information Papers" for a meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP), in order to ensure increased and longer-term accessibility of such documents. Other reports not originating from COP requests to the STRP, but which are considered by the STRP to provide information relevant to supporting implementation of the Convention, may be proposed for inclusion in the series. All Ramsar Technical Reports are peer-reviewed by the members and observers appointed to the STRP.

Ramsar Technical Reports are chiefly published in English in electronic (PDF) format -- when resources permit, they will be published also in French and Spanish (the other official languages of the Convention). The series editors are Heather MacKay (Chair of the STRP), Max Finlayson (former Chair of the STRP), and Nick Davidson (Deputy Secretary General, Ramsar Secretariat). Further information can be obtained from Nick Davidson (davidson@ramsar.org) or Dwight Peck (peck@ramsar.org).

Ramsar Technical Reports now available

No. 1	2006	Guidelines for the rapid assessment of inland, coastal and marine wetland biodiversity (published jointly as CBD Technical Series No. 22) (300kb)
	2010	Directrices para la evaluación ecológica rápida de la biodiversidad de las zonas costeras, marinas y de aguas continentales (Serie de publicaciones técnicas del CDB núm. 22)
	2010	Lignes directrices sur l’évaluation écologique rapide de la diversité biologique dans les eaux intérieures, côtières et marines (Série des publications techniques de la CBD nº 22)
No. 2	2006	Low-cost GIS software and data for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring, by John Lowry (1.9mb)
	2007	La utilización de programas y datos de SIG de bajo costo para el inventario, la evaluación y el monitoreo de humedales (1,5mb)
No.3	2006	Valuing wetlands: Guidance for valuing the benefits derived from wetlands ecosystem services, by De Groot, Stuip, Finlayson, & Davidson (published jointly as CBD Technical Series No. 27)(1.6mb)
	2007	Valoración de humedales: Lineamientos para valorar los beneficios derivados de los servicios de los ecosistemas de humedales (1,7mb)
	2007	Évaluation des zones humides : Orientations sur l'estimation des avantages issus des services écosystémiques des zones humides (1,8mb)
No.4	2010	A Framework for a wetland inventory metadatabase (424kb)
No.5	2011	A Framework for assessing the vulnerability of wetlands to climate change (published jointly as CBD Technical Series No. 57) (1.1mb)