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to its watershed, the restoration approach therefore addressed the integrity of ripar-
ian forests throughout the entire system whose presence was deemed essential to
reduce the transport of eutrophying chemicals. This is really the standard strategy in
dealing with agricultural pollution (U.S. Department of Agriculture 1998; Mitchell
2002; France 2006) and will almost certainly be an issue of concern in southern
Iraq. Another strategy was to restore wetlands in order to capture runoff water and
thus interrupt the transport of nutrients, an approach that has met with success in
many other locations (e.g., France 2003, 2006).
CONCLUSION
These case studies represent some of the issues that Ducks Unlimited has been
addressing over the years in its management of wetlands on the landscape scale,
and that might be expected to be useful in the restorative redevelopment of the Iraqi
marshlands. Young and Batt (2004) firmly believe that technology transfer in terms
of capacity building will really be the key element of the restoration process of south-
ern Iraq. In this regard, local communities will need to be engaged in the process in
order to ensure that restoration will have the greatest likelihood of success (France
2008; see also chapter 2). Additionally, information from long-term monitoring is
expected to also be crucial for the development of an institutional program of adap-
tive resource management, which might be profitably based on implementing some
of the methodologies described above.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Adapted from Young and Batt (2004).
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