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Improving The Management Of Large Protected Wetlands: Learning The Lessons From The Donana Nature Reserves.

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

34

Pages

11

Published

1999

Size

1,310 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ECO990341

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

L. Santamaria & J.M. Amezaga

Abstract

The Donana National Park (Guadalquivir estuary, SW Spain) enjoys international credit as a major wintering and stopover area for a wide array of migratory birds. However, the Park suffers from ever-increasing degradation caused by its position in a heavily used area and the concurrent inadequacy of the Park's management practices. In this paper, we analyse the water use structure and its associated decision-making network for the Guadalquivir watershed. Current fragmentation in both the praxis and the conceptualisation of water use and

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