Overview: This book brings together, for the first time, information onvarious wetland classification systems and wetland inventories fromaround the world, outlining regional, national and local wetlandclassifications developed in Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Europe,India, South America and the USA. Oriented towards the conservationand management of wetlands, these existing national and regionalclassification systems have been useful in providing an essential basefor the development of an international system. The volume alsoreviews various attempts at drawing up an inventory of wetlands
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