Overview
- The chapters in the book collectively provide a comprehensive synthesis of both the opportunities and the challenges associated with using natural and constructed wetlands for pollution abatement, while preserving the other ecological functions of these complex ecosystems
- The geographic and thematic scope of the book covers coastal mangrove forests in tropical ecosystems to tundra wetlands in the Canadian arctic, and the various book chapters describe the multi-functional dimensions of both natural and constructed wetlands in urban, rural and remote regions of the world
- This book illustrates the multi-functionality of wetland ecosystems for flood control, disaster risk reduction, habitat restoration, biodiversity conservation and recreation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management (ENCRMA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book describes how natural or constructed wetlands can be used to reduce pollution of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, while still preserving their biodiversity and ecological functions. Through a series of case histories described in 10 chapters in the monograph, the readers will gain an understanding of the opportunities, as well as the challenges associated with reducing point and non-point source pollution using natural, restored or constructed wetlands. The target audience will be water practitioners involved in projects utilizing integrated watershed management approaches to pollution abatement, as well as researchers who are designing projects focused on this topic.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nidhi Nagabhatla is a Programme Officer with the UN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health.  She is a natural systems science specialist and a geospatial analyst and she has led, coordinated and implemented transdisciplinary projects and worked with multi-disciplinary research teams in various geographical regions and in varied thematic domains related to water and ecosystems, particularly in Asia, South Africa and West European regions. She has worked for more than 15 years with multiple international organizations (IWMI, World Fish Centre and IUCN), leading research and capacity development initiatives related to the themes of water and wetlands.
inates research and capacity building projects involving both academic and government researchers. His area of expertise is the environmental fate and toxic effects of contaminants in the environment, including research on the removal of contaminants in constructed and natural wetland systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multifunctional Wetlands
Book Subtitle: Pollution Abatement and Other Ecological Services from Natural and Constructed Wetlands
Editors: Nidhi Nagabhatla, Christopher D. Metcalfe
Series Title: Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67416-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67415-5Published: 03 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88428-8Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67416-2Published: 25 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2522-5847
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5855
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis