The Second Warning to Humanity – Providing a Context for Wetland Management and Policy

The Second Warning to Humanity provides a clarion call for wetland researchers and practitioners given the loss and degradation of wetlands, the declining availability of fresh water, and the likely consequences of climate change. A coordinated response and approach to policies has the potential to...

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Published inWetlands (Wilmington, N.C.) Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Finlayson, C. M., Davies, Gillian T., Moomaw, William R., Chmura, G. L., Natali, Susan M., Perry, J. E., Roulet, N., Sutton-Grier, Ariana E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.02.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aquatic ecosystems
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Carbon dioxide
Carbon sequestration
climate
Climate change
Coastal Sciences
Degradation
Ecology
Ecosystem services
Emissions
Environmental Management
Environmental restoration
Fresh water
freshwater
Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Global climate
Greenhouse gases
Hydrogeology
issues and policy
Landscape Ecology
Life Sciences
methane
Permafrost
Ramsar
Science
Scientists
Warning
Wetland management
Wetlands
Climate change
Ramsar convention
Wetlands
Second warning to humanity
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Summary:The Second Warning to Humanity provides a clarion call for wetland researchers and practitioners given the loss and degradation of wetlands, the declining availability of fresh water, and the likely consequences of climate change. A coordinated response and approach to policies has the potential to prevent further degradation and support resilient wetlands that can provide a range of ecosystem services, including buffering wetlands from climate impacts, and avoiding major climate amplification from temperature-induced release of additional carbon dioxide and methane while addressing the causes and consequences of global climate change. The Warning to Humanity also provides an opportunity for organisations such as the Society of Wetland Scientists to raise the profile of wetlands and to initiate a discussion on how to respond and change direction from the destructive development trajectory that led to wetland loss and degradation. It also provides a signal for a reappraisal of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands as an international mechanism for ensuring the sustainability of wetlands.
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ISSN:0277-5212
1943-6246
DOI:10.1007/s13157-018-1064-z