Baro-Akobo River Basin Wetlands: Livelihoods and Sustainable Regional Land Management (Ethiopia)

Adrian Wood; J. Peter Sutcliffe; Alan Dixon

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_226-1

Baro-Akobo River Basin Wetlands: Livelihoods and Sustainable Regional Land Management (Ethiopia)

Adrian Wood, J. Peter Sutcliffe, Alan Dixon

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The Baro-Akobo system from Ethiopia, along with a major tributary the Sobat from South Sudan, contributes 48 % of the flow of the White Nile where these river systems join downstream of Malakal. Within the Baro-Akobo system in Ethiopia there are wetlands at altitudes from 400 m amsl to over 2000 m, varying in size from 1 ha to more than 1000 ha. These wetlands provide a range of ecosystem services and play critical roles in the livelihoods of the local people. These communities have built up considerable local knowledge about these areas and have developed community management systems. These skills need to be developed and applied more rigorously to address the threats to wetlands to ensure sustainable use with catchment and wetlands managed together in a functional landscape approach

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Wetland Book
Subtitle of host publication	II: Distribution, Description and Conservation
Editors	C. Max Finlayson, G. Randy Milton, R. Crawford Prentice, Nick C. Davidson
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9789400761735
ISBN (Print)	9789400761735
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_226-1
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2016

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Baro-Akobo River Basin Wetlands : Livelihoods and Sustainable Regional Land Management (Ethiopia). / Wood, Adrian; Sutcliffe, J. Peter; Dixon, Alan.

The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation. ed. / C. Max Finlayson; G. Randy Milton; R. Crawford Prentice; Nick C. Davidson. Springer Netherlands, 2016. p. 1-8.

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