ABSTRACT
Section 2 comprises eight chapters that deal with the ecocultural integrity of wetlands and nature reserves and their role in the restorative redevelopment of the Iraqi marshlands and other landscapes devastated by conict or natural disasters. Together these chapters consider the management of large-scale wetland landscapes for people and wildlife; the innovative design, development, and management strategies for preserved or restored wetland parks or nature reserves; and how the most sustainable and therefore successful projects marry environmental protection to economic development. The most important lesson to take away from these chapters is that it is nonsensical to be concerned with only ecological restoration when dealing with the complexities involved in the restorative redevelopment of regional, and therefore by denition ecocultural, landscapes such as the Iraqi marshlands.
