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FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION: EVERLASTING SWAMPS

UPLANDS AND COLD LANDS

RIVER FLOODPLAINS

ENGLISH FENS AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST: Land grabs in ‘dismal swamps’

PANTANAL, BRAZIL: A future for the world’s largest wetland

RUPUNUNI, GUYANA: How to map the glistening grasslands

TONLE SAP, CAMBODIA: Reversing river is the beating heart of the Mekong

LAKE CHAD, WEST AFRICA: Dams, dykes and an international refugee crisis

INNER NIGER DELTA, MALI: Desert jewel on the brink

SUDD SWAMP AND MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHES: Refuges in times of conflict

RIVER RHINE, EUROPE: River ‘rectification’ replaced by ‘making room for the river’

INLAND SEAS, SWAMPS AND SUMPS

SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA: Celebrating artificial and accidental wetlands

LAKES PRESPA AND OHRID, BALKANS: Wetland truce brings wider peace

ARAL SEA, CENTRAL ASIA: What happens when a sea dies

CUVETTE CENTRALE, CONGO: Jungle swamps and a climate time bomb

COASTAL DELTAS AND LAGOONS

RUFIJI DELTA, TANZANIA: Restoring wetland rights for wise use

MISSISSIPPI DELTA, LOUISIANA: Ol’ man river keeps on rolling

KERALA, INDIA: Crazy backwaters in ‘God’s own country’

VENICE, ITALY: When a coastal lagoon becomes an ocean bay

ACEH, INDONESIA: Mangroves to fight the next tsunami

BAY OF BENGAL, SOUTH ASIA: Absorbing cyclones in India and Bangladesh

WADDEN SEA, NETHERLANDS: Breaking dykes to stop the ocean

FLORIDA EVERGLADES, USA: Start of a blue carbon revolution

JAVA, INDONESIA: ‘God willing we plan to stay’

CONCLUSION: GROUNDSWELL

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