Authors:
Shigeo Kobayashi
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
peat, rehabilitation, tropical-forests, wetland-forests
Documentfile:
ipc16p567-571a350kobayashi.pdf
Summary:
INTRODUCTION
The Ramseur treaty on wetland conservation was concluded in 1971. Wetland forests in the tropics have, however, been experiencing drastic land-use change for easy access and utilization, which, together with tropical forest decline, has also been a focal point of global environmental issues. Rehabilitation of degraded wetlands has, nevertheless, hardly been attempted. LULUCF (Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry) has been discussed as an agenda of IPCC since 2001. It is, therefore, urgently necessary to conduct research on land resource management option and local society empowerment for global-warming prevention in Southeast Asian wetlands. COP15 of…