RT Report
T1 Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis - A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 World Resources Institute, 
K1 ecosystem
K1 ecosystem analysis
K1 ecosystem degradation
K1 ecosystem research
K1 environmental assessment
K1 biodiversity
K1 environmental change
K1 human health
K1 human population
K1 ecosystem service
K1 valued ecosystem component
K1 environmental economy issue
K1 water conservation
K1 water resource
K1 water management
K1 wetland
K1 wetland ecosystem
K1 restoration of water
PB Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board
SN 1-56973-597-2
YR 2005
FD 2005
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8735
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8735
NO This report provides an assessment of the current state of our ecosystems and the many services they support and provide to people. Direct drivers of degradation of wetlands such as land conversion, pollution and infrastructure and indirect drivers such as population growth and economic development are discussed extensively. It enhances our on understanding the direct drivers of change to wetlands and shows how they would fare under a range of future scenarios. Responses for the wise use of wetlands including governance and institutional responses are highlighted. This report further provides an analysis of future challenges and response options that could allow us to maintain, to the greatest extent possible, the ecosystem services on which we all depend. The synthesis stresses the link between wetlands and water. Wetlands include inland wetlands such as swamps, marshes, lakes, rivers, peatlands and underground water habitats, coastal and near-shore marine wetlands such as coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds and estuaries and man-made wetlands such as rice fields, dams, reservoirs and fish ponds.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 19, 2026