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Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People

Report on the Shaoxing City Symposium
Language(s): English , Contact person: Chris Baker , Author(s): Ounsted, M (Eds.) , Date of Publication: 2008 , ISBN: 978-90-5882-010-5

On 8 November 2007 the People’s Government of Shaoxing City hosted a symposium, organised by Wetlands International, entitled ‘Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People’. The opening sessions were chaired by Chen Kelin, Director of Wetlands International - China, and the technical sessions and discussion by Mike Ounsted, Chair of the Wetlands and Livelihoods Working Group.

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