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Facing the challenges of managing urban wetlands in Australia: the way forward

The development of urban wetland management strategies must be informed by good science but, perhaps of equal importance, must engage with the community and policy makers. Juggling the ecological, social, financial and political priorities will not be simple but will nonetheless be made more difficult in an absence of suitably trained and engaged wetland scientists and managers. Throughout this manual, a framework has been provided to answer many of the questions regarding the strategies currently available to protect, monitor and manage urban wetlands. This concluding chapter, however, is designed to raise more questions. Most importantly, how can we design a roadmap for managing urban wetlands in Australia into the future? In particular, can we manage, restore or create wetlands in amongst the complexity of rapidly expanding urbanisation? While also contending with the uncertainty being imposed by global environmental change?