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The Ramsar Convention's resources on Wetland Restoration


The STRP Expert Working Group on Wetland Restoration

Welcome to the Ramsar Convention's wetland restoration mini-site, created by the Expert Working Group on Wetland Restoration of the Convention's Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP).  This mini-site provides basic information about wetland restoration, examples of approaches to restoration drawn from projects around the world, a link to a Web-based searchable wetland restoration bibliography, and other information that may be valuable to anyone interested in wetland restoration.

Contents

Wetland restoration glossary

Approaches to wetland restoration
Wetland restoration bibliography
Policy incentives for wetland restoration
Links to restoration project Web sites
Sources of restoration training
Links to Web-based restoration tools
Ramsar COP7: National Planning and Restoration
Ramsar Resolution VII.7: Restoration as an element of national planning for wetland conservation and wise use

"Rehabilitating nature: a comparative review of legal mechanisms that encourage wetland restoration efforts", Catholic University Law Review (Washington, D.C., USA), vol. 52, no. 3 (spring 2003), pages 573-620, Roy C. Gardner.


Most of the material on this wetland restoration Web site has been provided by Dr Bill Streever, representing the Society of Wetland Scientists on the Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel. For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 8 January 2001, updated 15 February 2002, 8 October 2003, Bill Streever and Dwight Peck.

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