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Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking inclusion

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Title Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking inclusion
 
Creator Joshi, Deepa
Gallant, Bryce
Hakhu, Arunima
Silva, Sanjiv de
McDougall, C.
Dubois, Mark J.
Arulingam, Indika
 
Subject wetlands
conventions
gender
women
political ecology
inclusion
policies
social aspects
ecological factors
governance
guidelines
local communities
 
Description The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands emphasizes the “wise use” of wetlands by conserving the ecological character of wetlands while managing the socio-economic value these landscapes hold for different stakeholders. Reviewing the Convention obligations, resolutions, and guidelines through a feminist political ecology lens, we find them to be overtly simplistic and technocratic. A deliberately generic framing of socio-ecological interrelations and of economic trade-offs between wetland uses and users obscures broader political and social contexts which shape complex nature-society interrelations in the use, management, and governance of wetlands. Poverty, the cultural significance of wetlands—particularly for indigenous communities—and gender equality have only recently been considered in wetlands management and governance guidelines and interventions. These recent additions provide little insight on the power imbalances which shape plural values, meanings, experiences, and voices in wetlands use and governance, especially for the most marginalized of wetlands users. We welcome the call for a “reformulation” of a socio-ecological approach to managing and governing wetlands, but caution that unless wetlands governance structures and processes are re-politicized, changes in policies and approaches will likely remain rhetorical.
 
Date 2021-03
2021-06-30T18:18:49Z
2021-06-30T18:18:49Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Joshi, Deepa; Gallant, Bryce; Hakhu, Arunima; de Silva, Sanjiv; McDougall, C.; Dubois, M.; Arulingam, Indika. 2021. Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking inclusion. Ecological Restoration, 39(1-2):36-44. (Special issue: Restoration for Whom, by Whom?) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.01-02.36]
1522-4740
1543-4079
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114153
http://er.uwpress.org/content/39/1-2/36.full.pdf
https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.01-02.36
H050500
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 36-44
 
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
 
Source Ecological Restoration