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Books
A Practitioner’s Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation
by Nicole Silk and Kristine Ciruna, Eds. (July 2004, The Nature Conservancy)
Conserving freshwater biodiversity presents unique challenges for conservation practitioners. Meeting these challenges requires understanding how freshwater ecosystems are formed and how they function. It requires identifying the best strategies to pursue in the face of existing threats to freshwater ecosystems and identified conservation targets. And, the strategies selected must be scale appropriate. Usually these strategies are very different from what practitioners might pursue to conserve land-based targets. Practitioners not specialized in freshwater biodiversity conservation may have little experience from which to base their efforts.
A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation was developed to help conservation practitioners become better able to meet the challenges specific to freshwater biodiversity conservation.
This guide:
Publications - BooksRivers for Life, Sandra Postel and Brian Richter. Managing Freshwater Inflows to Estuaries - A Methods Guide
Publications - PapersDownload PDF copies of various articles and papers relating to the work of the Sustainable Waters Program. |
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presents information about the global challenge of freshwater biodiversity conservation
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explores how freshwater ecosystems are structured and function to support this biodiversity
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explains approaches for identifying the most important freshwater biodiversity to protect
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describes the four primary causes of freshwater bidiversity decline (water use and management, land use and management, invasive alien species, and fisheries management and overharvesting)
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presents comprehensive information about a wide range of strategies at various institutional and geographic scales to abate these threats
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describes design considerations and methods for measuring freshwater conservation success within an adaptive management framework.
The information included in this guide is based on a comprehensive review of practitioner experience from around the world and draws from knowledge gained through The Nature Conservancy's Freshwater Initiative between 1998 and 2003.
No other book currently available presents as comprehensive a review of information related to freshwater biodiverisity conservation.
To place an order go to the Island Press web site or download the order form (PDF).
