Wetland management planning: a guide for site managers

Abstract

This guide is intended to provide a summary of the steps to develop wetland management planning processes. Improved understanding of how to use these principles and planning steps will help achieve more effective conservation and thus wetland wise use. This summary guide has been prepared to help managers of sites listed under the Ramsar Convention on wetlands as well as all other types of wetlands. It provides a summary of Ramsar's Handbook 16 Managing wetlands : Frameworks for managing Wetlands of International Importance and other Wetland sites, 3rd edition, 2007, while highlighting other relevant sources of useful information on wetland management planning.