Conservation and Development: The Sustainable Use of Wetland Resources

E. Maltby, P.J. Dugan and J.C. Lefeuvre

This book comprises the Proceedings of the Third International Wetlands Conference in Rennes, France, 19-23 September 1988. It is divided into four sections which deal successively with conservation and resource use with particular emphasis on agriculture, coastal zone conservation and management, fisheries management and the management problems of wetland hydrology. Individual papers are short. They were not prepared with the intention of appearing in the traditional scientific or conservation journals, but rather with deliberate intent to highlight new cases, assessments and examples of the needs, problems and priorities of wetland conservation. The volume thus provides a unique contribution to, and information base for, the development of new policies for wetland conservation worldwide.

219 pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0108-2, 1992. Price : £10/US$20

Table of Contents

Foreward

Avant-Propos

Section 1: Wetland conservation and resource use

Research priorities in wetland science, wetland conservation and agricultural development - P.J. Dugan

Sustainable agricultural development and wetland conservation in Northern Nigeria - W.M. Adams

Utilisation of wetland plant resources by rice farmers in Indonesia - M. Soerjani

The exploitation of wetland resources by traditional communities in the Kafue Flats and Bangweulu Basin - H. Weza Chabwela

Conservation in the Inner Niger Delta, Mali: the interdependence of ecological and socio-economic research - J.R. Skinner

Peatlands - dilemmas of use and conservation - Edward Maltby

Research and management in the Pantanal of Brazil - J. Adamoli

Revised American strategies to reduce wetland conversions to agriculture - R.W. Nelson

Ugandan wetlands and their management - P.Denny and F. Turyatunga

Section 2. Coastal zone conservation and management

Managing Brazil’s coastal wetlands: the contribution of research amid the realities of politics - Antonio Carlos Diégues

Coastal processes and littoral environment in the region of the Banc d’Arguin (Mauritania) - François Cuq and Pierre Campredon

Planning the management of coastal lagoons in Ghana - Y. Ntiamoa-Baidu and G.E. Hollis

Environmental modifications, research and management in the estuaries and mangroves of the "Southern Rivers" (West Africa)- E.S. Diop

Section 3: Wetlands and fisheries management

Research priorities in fisheries management as a tool for wetlands conservation and rural development in Africa - G.M. Bernacsek

Estuarine-related fisheries in Terminos Lagoon and adjacent continental shelf (southern gulf of Mexico) - A. Yáñez-Arancibia, A. Aguirre-Léon and G. Soberón-Cháavez

The northern Cameroon floodplain: influence of hydrology on fish production - V. Benech

Fish communities and fishing in a floodplain lake of Central Amazonia - B. de Merona

Changing tropical marshlands into agro-piscicultural ecosystems - J.-C. Micha, H. Halen et J.-L. Rosado Couoh

Notes on the role of research in addressing the potential and problems of aquaculture in the Casamance region of Senegal - S. Gilles

Section 4: Managing wetland hydrology

The impact of drought and dams on the functions of the Hadejia-Gashua Floodplain, Nigeria: a preliminary study - G.E: Hollis

Deterioration of wetlands caused by groundwater exploitation: two case histories in Spain - M.R. Llamas