| Titre : | Compliance Monitoring of Wetlands |
| Auteurs : | Emma Goodyer, Auteur ; Johan Schutten, Auteur ; C. Max Finlayson, Auteur ; Mark Everard, Auteur ; Kenneth Irvine, Auteur ; Robert J. McInnes, Auteur ; Beth A. Middleton, Auteur ; Anne A. van Dam, Auteur ; Nick C. Davidson, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Chapitre |
| Editeur : | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2017 |
| Format : | 1-7 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés: | Compliance ; Environmental risk ; Environmental standards ; Hydrological model ; Licence ; Monitoring |
| Résumé : | Wetlands provide a range of ecosystem services however, there has been an accelerated loss of wetlands in the last 100 years. Protection of the valuable wetland resource is commonly achieved through a combination of (a) direct protection of high-value wetland habitats as “protected sites,” (b) indirect protection of wetland habitats through a protection of the hydrological functionality of the landscape, and (c) limiting environmental pressures on wetland habitats, for example, through licensing of potentially damaging activities. Both the protection of the hydrological functionality of the wetland and the limiting of pressures require regulatory controls. Compliance monitoring is the tool to ensure conformance with planning or licensing conditions and thus ascertains if the hydrological functionality is maintained or the environmental pressure is within acceptable levels. The purpose of compliance monitoring is typically to demonstrate that the quality and integrity of a wetland are maintained while carrying out, and in some cases for a period before and after, a regulated activity. |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_284-2 |



