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Economic Instruments to Respond to the Multiple Values of Wetlands

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Abstract

Wetlands are some of the most important biodiverse areas in the world, and provide key ecosystem services. A wide range of policy-based instruments need to be increasingly employed to protect them, including regulatory instruments like the designation and management of terrestrial and marine-protected areas; environmental regulation (i.e. regulation of water discharges, regulation of products and spatial planning); property rights, as well as a range of integrated management approaches (Integrated Water Resource Management, Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Maritime Spatial Planning); permit or licence decisions on land use changes, water abstraction and discharges; and restoration targets.

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  1. Institute for European Environment Policy (IEEP), 4 rue de la Science, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

    Patrick ten Brink

  2. Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), 11 Belgrave Road, SW1V 1RB, London, UK

    Daniela Russi

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. International Water Security Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Mark Everard

  3. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetlands and Environment Ltd., Littleworth, Oxfordshire, UK

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Aquatic Ecosystems Group, Department of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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ten Brink, P., Russi, D. (2018). Economic Instruments to Respond to the Multiple Values of Wetlands. In: Finlayson, C.M., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_300

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