Abstract
Human settlement in Las Tablas de Daimiel started 3600 years BP and developed into a rich culture of hunters, fishermen and plant and animal gatherers that survived until the last third of the twentieth century. Very recently, unsustainable economic development in the catchment resulted in strong pollution and depletion of water resources, forcing people to leave, impairing the wetland ecological health and threatening the future of this important European wetland. This chapter pays special attention to human uses of this wetland, and outlines the main historical and ecological relationships between the wetland and human societies.
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The Water and Wetland Centre of La Mancha and the Daimiel Art Museum (Central Spain) are gratefully acknowledged for their loan of images of TDNP de Daimiel photographs and D’Opazo paintings. More specifically, we warmly thank Alicia López and Diego Clemente for their prompt and insightful help with these images.
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Alvarez-Cobelas, M., Cirujano, S., Meco, A. (2010). The Man and Las Tablas de Daimiel. In: Sánchez-Carrillo, S., Angeler, D. (eds) Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands. Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9181-9_11
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