Sustaining Life
Title | Sustaining Life PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Chivian |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2008-05-15 |
Genre | Medical |
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Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on on the earth's disappearaing biodiversity. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.
Living Off Biodiversity
Title | Living Off Biodiversity PDF eBook |
Author | Izabella Koziell |
Publisher | IIED |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781899825677 |
"This book attempts to explore different natural resource sectors and to identify possibilities for mainstreaming the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into these sectors but without compromising livelihoods in the process. It advocates leveraging incremental change within the existing natural resource sectors through research, policy change, development and demonstration of alternative approaches. There are six chapters that discuss these issues in the forestry, agricultural, livestock and fisheries sectors and within rangelands. A discussion on insect diversity and livelihoods also constitutes a separate chapter. The whole book is framed by an introduction and macro-economic perspective on how to start to resolve the conflicts between conservation and development."--Editor.
Life in the Balance
Title | Life in the Balance PDF eBook |
Author | Niles Eldredge |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2000-02-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780691050096 |
In Life in the Balance, Niles Eldredge argues that the Earth is confronting an ecological disaster in the making. He reviews compelling evidence for this "biodiversity crisis", showing that species are dying out at an unnaturally rapid rate. This book explores the same themes that illuminate the American Museum of Natural History's new Hall of Biodiversity, for which Eldredge is Scientific Curator. An eloquent and passionate account by one of today's leading scientists, Life in the Balance draws attention to one of the most pressing problems now facing the world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
World Atlas of Biodiversity
Title | World Atlas of Biodiversity PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Groombridge |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780520236684 |
Global biological diversity, ecosystem diversity.
Conservation Biogeography
Title | Conservation Biogeography PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Ladle |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2011-01-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1444390023 |
CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY The Earth’s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action. Many habitats have been completely destroyed or divided into tiny fragments, others have been transformed through the introduction of new species, or the extinction of native plants and animals, while anthropogenic climate change now threatens to completely redraw the geographic map of life on this planet. The urgent need to understand and prescribe solutions to this complicated and interlinked set of pressing conservation issues has lead to the transformation of the venerable academic discipline of biogeography – the study of the geographic distribution of animals and plants. The newly emerged sub-discipline of conservation biogeography uses the conceptual tools and methods of biogeography to address real world conservation problems and to provide predictions about the fate of key species and ecosystems over the next century. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the field in a series of closely interlinked chapters addressing the central issues within this exciting and important subject.
Conserving Biodiversity
Title | Conserving Biodiversity PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1992-02-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0309046831 |
The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where the conditions of human existence are most difficult. Conserving Biodiversity presents an agenda for research that can provide information to formulate policy and design conservation programs in the Third World. The book includes discussions of research needs in the biological sciences as well as economics and anthropology, areas of critical importance to conservation and sustainable development. Although specifically directed toward development agencies, non-governmental organizations, and decisionmakers in developing nations, this volume should be of interest to all who are involved in the conservation of biological diversity.
Perspectives on Biodiversity
Title | Perspectives on Biodiversity PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1999-10-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 030906581X |
Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect. Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components-including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity. The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.