Multiuse Wetlands Governance: Challenges and Institutional Choices [Hardcover]

Earths wetlands are among the most precious of ecosystems, for they are both beautiful and an essential part of the architecture that is Nature. Marothias moving love letter to wetlands masquerades as a scientific document, but it is all the better for it, because it hides the painstaking empirical work the author has undertaken to show what the wetlands offer the human economy. The book is a landmark.

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Professor Marothia has written an exhaustive and impressive account of the manifold threats to the coherent management of fragile wetland habitats. Here we find careful attention to the institutional arrangements suited to the protection of these essential natural resources. No longer are such wet areas regarded as swamps or economically useless. Now, their role in integrated environmental management is well understood. Marothias exceptional treatise promises to be of enduring value in rescuing these habitats from mis-management or continued destruction.

Daniel W. Bromley, Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Governing wetlands sustainably and well requires the appropriate institutions that recognize their characteristics as common assets and their huge value in producing ecosystem services. Dinesh K. Marothias summary of these challenges and choices is required reading for anyone interested in governing our valuable wetlands.

Professor Robert Costanza, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, London, UK