Includes chapters on a wide range of issues from many different parts of the world, for example: native freshwater vegetation communities in the Nekong delta; riparian influences on a tropical river ecosystem in Belize, Central America; carabid beetles as indicators of current and historical land-form and land-use changes in wetlands; impacts of drainage on Finnish peatlands and their vegetation; environmental anthropology of the woodland Indians of Horicaon Marsh, Wisconsin, US.