Extensive agricultural drainage of lakes and wetlands in the Canadian Prairies has led to
benefits for agricultural production, but has had a substantial influence on hydrological
regimes and wetland extent. There is need for the potential impacts of current policy in
changing the socio-hydrological resilience of prairie wetland basins in response to
agricultural drainage to be examined. Whilst wetland drainage can increase agricultural
productivity, it can also reduce stocks of natural capital and decrease ecosystem services …