Book Review: Postmodern wetlands: culture, history, ecology

Abstract

perhaps its most intransigent and complex problems. This is an important theme. However, it is equally important for scholars to keep in mind that significant natural processes may dwarf human activity, and that there has to be a careful balance established in the study of the natural and human environments that leads a scholar to a wise understanding of the relative roles of natural processes and human impacts at work that shape environmental patterns and processes. This balance is even more challenging, yet essential for decisionmakers and environmental managers to comprehend as they grapple with and unravel environmental issues of the next millennium. As Sir Crispin Tickell suggests, ‘always see and deal with environmental issues together . . . isolated measures to cope with one of them can sometimes make others worse’. This reader, taken with other references, helps scholars, educators and managers to this realization.