The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

The Ramsar Library: the Ramsar Technical Reports series

Ramsar Technical Reports

Ramsar Technical Reports are published by the Ramsar Secretariat and are designed to publish, chiefly through electronic media, technical notes, reviews and reports on wetland ecology, conservation, wise use and management, as an enhanced 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). The series is designed 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, the reports will be published also in French and Spanish (the other official languages of the Convention) and/or in printed form. 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)
No. 2	2006	Low-cost GIS software and data for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring, by John Lowry (1.9mb)
Núm.2	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)
Núm.3	2007	Valoración de humedales: Lineamientos para valorar los beneficios derivados de los servicios de los ecosistemas de humedales (1,7mb)
N° 3	2007	Évaluation des zones humides : Orientations sur l’estimation des avantages issus des services écosystémiques des zones humides (1,8mb)

In preparation

- A review of Ramsar sites and fisheries management
- The Convention’s development of Criteria and guidelines for Ramsar site designation 1971-2005
- Methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of wetlands to change in their ecological character
- Reviews of environmental flow methodologies: i. rivers; ii. estuaries and near-shore environments; iii. non-riverine inland wetlands
- A framework for a wetland inventory meta-database
- Implementation Plan for Global Action on Peatlands 2006-2008
- Review of wetland classification systems

For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 28 November 2006, updated 7 November 2007, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.