Sustainable Management and Resilience of Arctic Wetlands

The report details the first phase of an Arctic Council project led by the CAFF Working Group, focusing on the inventory and scientific review of Arctic wetlands. It emphasizes the role of these environments in biodiversity, hydrology, and carbon storage, while highlighting the necessity of integrating indigenous knowledge into wetland management to counter historical misconceptions of wetlands as wastelands.

• Historically, wetlands have been misperceived as 'wastelands', leading to destructive practices such as draining, landfilling, and paving, which eliminate critical ecosystem functions.
• The first phase of the project focused on creating wetland inventories to establish baselines for policy-making and reviewing research on how climate change impacts wetland hydrology, biodiversity, and carbon storage.
• The study identifies that wetlands are central to indigenous livelihoods and asserts that the inclusion of local and indigenous knowledge is a requirement for effective wetland management.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2019). Sustainable Management and Resilience of Arctic Wetlands. https://www.sei.org/publications/sustainable-management-resilience-arctic-wetlands/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Sustainable Management and Resilience of Arctic Wetlands. 2019. https://www.sei.org/publications/sustainable-management-resilience-arctic-wetlands/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2019sustainable, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Sustainable Management and Resilience of Arctic Wetlands}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = mar, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/sustainable-management-resilience-arctic-wetlands/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }