Overview: Offers a rich trove of information on the ecology and management of Chilika Lagoon.Covers institutional and governance issues, political ecology, and the Ramsar Convention’s restoration guidelines.Sho.This book chronicles the decades-long work of studying, analyzing, and reversing the environmental pressures that threatened India’s Chilika Lagoon, the largest brackish-water lagoon in the region, and the second largest in the world. Designated as one of India’s first Ramsar Sites in 1981, Chilika Lagoon continued to degrade for a decade longer. Then, the Chilika Development Authority
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