Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar : a conservation assessment /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Washington : Island Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 431 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
Language:English
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200899
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Thieme, Michele L.
ISBN:9781441608932
1441608931
9781559633659
1559633654
9781597267915
1597267910
1559633654
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-415) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Essay 5.1: Safeguarding Human Health, Safeguarding Aquatic Snail Diversity: Conflicting Goals? -- Ch. 6: Africa's Freshwater Systems and Their Future -- Who's Watching the Water -- Conservation Planning in Ecoregions and River Basins -- Visionary Work in Freshwater Ecoregions and River Basins -- Challenges to Freshwater Conservation and Sustainable Development in Africa and Madagascar -- Essay 6.1: The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar): An International Treaty Sparks Freshwater Conservation -- Essay 6.2: Lake Naivasha, Kenya: Community Management of a Ramsar Site.
Other form:Print version: Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar. Washington : Island Press, ©2005