Convention on Wetlands of International Importance signed in Ramsar
The Ramsar Convention establishes a framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation of wetlands and their resources.
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wetlands
"Environmental Failure, Success and Sustainable Development: The Hauraki Plains Wetlands Through Four Generations of New Zealanders"
Taking a long-term approach following one family of Pakeha through four generations of interaction with the Hauraki Plains wetlands, this study argues that the environmental transformation that happened there was less a question of culture than of a specific time and place (context of civilisation).
"A Native American System of Wetland Agriculture in Different Ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes (15th–18th Centuries)"
In this paper, Caillavet identifies a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions, and ecology of agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.
"A 'Sportsman's Paradise:' The Effects of Hunting on the Avifauna of the Gippsland Lakes"
This paper examines hunting in the colonial era and attempts to evaluate its role in avifaunal decline on the Gippsland Lakes.
"The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake: From Site of Discard to Environmental Playground?"
In order to understand the workings of ecological imperialism at the local level, this essay traces the haphazard environmental history of an area of land at the north-eastern border of Christchurch.
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