Baiyangdian wetland is called “Kidney in north China”, providing a wide range of ecosystem services that are important for human wellbeing. In the past few decades, the water scarcity and eco-environmental problems resulted from climate changes and human activities have become more and more...

Coastal wetlands are recognized as carbon sinks that play an important role in mitigating global climate change because of the strong carbon uptake by vegetation and high carbon sequestration in the soil. Over the last few decades, plastic waste pollution in coastal zones has become increasingly...

In the present study, the technical feasibility of an electrocoagulation-constructed wetland continuous flow treatment system for the removal of organic matter, such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), from landfill leachate was evaluated. The response surface methodology (MSR) was applied to...

Climate change is transforming the planet, and the Arctic is on the front lines. Those seeking tools to slow or alter this transformation are searching everywhere. Some are looking to international treaties as potential tools. In keeping with the theme of the Big Thaw Conference, this chapter...

Monitoring wetlands of Kenya is critical for analysis of environmental changes since they present unique ecosystems with special hydrological balance and biodiversity. In this study, the Landsat 8-9 OLI/TIRS satellite images for 2015-2022 were classified using GRASS GIS scripts to evaluate...

Inclusive and environmentally sound sustainable development requires managing natural resources that societies depend on for the long term. In the context of marine and coastal resources which provide an important source of income for large numbers of households and revenue for countries, this...

Humans have remained highly dependent on the availability of ecosystem services (ES). Over the past 300 years (more intensely in the past seven decades), human activities have degraded the ecosystems and lowered the availability of ES. This has resulted in foregone benefits of well- functioning...

Wetlands are very important because of the wide range of ecosystem services they provide. Despite their ecological, social and environmental importance, these ecosystems are threatened and fragmented under the combined effects of climate change (CC) and man-made activities (MMA). Such a state of...

Background: Groundwater is an important source of drinking water for the indigenous communities of Ebocha-Obrikom. Access to safe drinking water, in particular, is critical to one's health and, by extension, one's income and well-being. Underground wells are the primary supply of drinking water...

Agricultural non-point source pollution is the largest contributor to black-odor in rivers in rural areas. In particular, under the anoxic environment induced by wastewater with high ammonia nitrogen from the swine industry, sulfur compounds are produced, which lead to the formation of sulfides....

The Swedish EU Rural Development Programme (RDP) has included financing for constructed wetlands (CWs) with two goals: nutrient reduction and biodiversity conservation. The cost effectiveness of these CWs has been difficult to assess as defined targets were lacking. In 2013, Swedish authorities...

Nitrogen pollution in medium-to-small rivers often brings about eutrophication to lakes. In this work, a composite technique consisting of retention pond (RP)-subsurface flow constructed wetland (SFCW)-stabilization pond (SP) was proposed in the present study. Results showed that RP-SFCW-SP can...

Information on water table depth (WTD) in polder areas and wetlands is important in, for example, estimating emissions of greenhouse gases, assessing the agricultural and ecological potential, and flood risk management. The seasonal variation of WTDs is summarized with averages of the yearly...

Low-polluted waters treated by traditional constructed wetlands (CWs) were usually difficult especially because of restricted available land use. A novel hybrid CWs could be applied to remediate low-polluted rivers, which can realize steps complementary to each other that exploit the specific...

Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world, and consequently has polluted numerous water bodies through agricultural runoff. Treatment wetlands (TWs) have shown great promise for mitigating such pesticide contamination. The objectives of our study were to determine the effects of...

Vertical flow constructed wetlands (VFCWs) are commonly considered an effective solution for the removal of a wide range of pollutants from wastewater. The classical French system is a variety of VFCW technology which has proved efficient in removing organic matter; however, the removal of...

Wetland CH 4 emissions are one of the most uncertain components of the global CH 4 budget. The complex nature of wetland CH 4 processes makes it challenging to identify causal relationships that could be used to improve our understanding and predictability of CH 4 emissions. In this study, we...

A low-carbon energy transition to fight climate change has intensified mineral and metal extraction and caused unintended ecological damage. Ecological conservation is challenged by the overlap between mining deposit areas and ecosystems, as in the case of lithium resources in the High-Andean...

Surface mining operations for bitumen have fundamentally altered large areas of boreal forest and fen peatland in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of Alberta, Canada. Pilot projects intended to assess the feasibility of fen construction as a reclamation option have been designed, built, and...

Wetland ecosystems hold an important part of the world’s biodiversity and are complex social-ecological systems. Aiming to understand interdependencies among their components and to define management policies, the social-ecological trajectory of Oussudu lake – a wetland of Pondicherry region...

Regeneration and survival of bottomland hardwoods are affected by environmental variables related to the hydrologic regime. Climate change, specifically alterations to precipitation patterns, may have outsized effects on these forests. In Tennessee, USA, precipitation has increased by 15% since...

Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands, which integrates natural ecological components such as soil, filler, plants, and microorganisms in a unit, is an effective rural domestic sewage treatment technology. Based on the principle of waste recycling, garbage ceramsite and soil were used as the...

We introduce an empirical framework for valuing markets in environmental offsets. Using newly-collected data on wetland conservation and offsets, we apply this framework to evaluate a set of decentralized markets in Florida, where land developers purchase offsets from a small number of...

The objective of this study was the fully characterization of the pruning wastes from macrophyte Cyperus giganteus from tertiary sewage treatment of Wastewater Treatment Plant, Ponte dos Leites, located in Araruama, RJ, Brazil. Such analyses aimed at the systematic evaluation of the feasibility...

The object of research is biodiversity and humanistic ecology values of the wetlands and the negative impacts of the socio-economic development on wetland ecosystem. Propose practical solutions for the conservation, management and sustainable use of the wetland resources for the sustainable...

We survey landowners to investigate the costs associated with the presence of permanent or seasonal wetland areas in cropland. We find, as predicted by our conceptual model, that dispersion of wetland areas imposes substantial inconvenience costs for producers but that costs respond nonlinearly...

This article models the recreation demand for Iowa wetlands, combining survey data on both actual usage patterns (i.e., revealed preferences (RPs)) and anticipated changes to those patterns under hypothetical increases in trip costs (i.e., stated preferences (SPs)). We formulate and test...

Benefit transfer is increasingly being used by decision makers as a way of estimating environmental values suitable for use in benefit cost analysis. However, recent studies examining the validity of benefit transfer of passive use values estimated using contingent valuation have rejected the...

Repeated logit models are among the most commonly applied methods for modeling seasonal recreation demand. In this article we examine the capabilities of the repeated nested logit and repeated mixed logit models to capture patterns of error correlation and demand substitution. Particular...

Inclusive and environmentally sound sustainable development requires managing natural resources that societies depend on for the long term. In the context of marine and coastal resources which provide an important source of income for large numbers of households and revenue for countries, this...

Despite the growing awareness that wetlands are extremely valuable ecosystems, they continue to degrade (Seo / Birdlife, 2018). Some authors (Pearce and Turner, 1995; De Groot et al., 2007; Barbier et al., 1997) agree about this is because they are not being managed in an optimal way because the full...

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We assess three dimensions of institutional quality: economic...

Last year, two WLF Legal Pulse posts (here and here) explored the federal government's incremental expansion of control over privately owned agricultural property through the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the law's hydra-like oversight of wetlands. Those commentaries presented one Erie, Pennsylvania...