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With a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, this book brings together internationally known experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss: how to determine conservation priorities in a scientific fashion, how to weigh the long-term, often hidden value of conservation against the more immediate value of land development, the need for education in areas of rapid population growth, and how lack of knowledge about biodiversity can impede conservation efforts.United in their belief that conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the contributing authors address the full scope of global biodiversity and its decline -- the threatened marine life and extinction of many mammals in the modern era in relation to global patterns of development, and the implications of biodiversity loss for human health, agricultural productivity, and the economy. The Living Planet in Crisis is the result of a conference of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
Review:
"[A] generally well-integrated volume that achieves both depth and breadth on the complex subject matter.... this book illuminates a vital nexus where attention is urgently needed." -- Nina-Marie Lister, Environments
Table of contents:
14. Seeing the World as It Really Is: Global Stability and Environmental Change, by Peter H. Raven and Joel Cracraft
13. Strange Bedfellows: Why Science and Policy Don't Mesh and What Can Be Done About It, by Jeffrey A. McNeely
IV. What Needs to Be Done
12. Convention on Biological Diversity: Program Priorities in the Early Stage of Implementation, by Kalemani J. Mulongoy, Susan Bragdon, and Antonella Ingrassia
11. The Facts of Life (on Earth), by Thomas E. Lovejoy
10. Saving Biodiversity and Saving the Biosphere, by Norman Myers
III. Biodiversity Science and Policy Formulation
9. The Economic Consequences of Biodiversity Loss, by Dominic Moran and David Pearce
8. Biodiversity Loss and Its Implications for Security and Armed Conflict, by Arthur H. Westing
7. The Implications of Biodiversity Loss for Human Health, by Francesca T. Grifo and Eric Chivian
6. Biodiversity, Agricultural Productivity, and People, by John Burnett
5. Regional and Global Patterns of Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Capacity: Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Needs, by Joel Cracraft
II. Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: Science and Society
4. Requiem 'ternam: The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinctions, by Ross D. E. MacPhee and Clare Flemming
3. The Medium Is the Message: Freshwater Biodiversity in Peril, by Melanie L. J. Stiassny
2. Dimensions of Biodiversity: Targeting Megadiverse Groups, by Norman I. Platnick
1. The Magnitude of Global Biodiversity and Its Decline, by Nigel E. Stork
I. Science of Diversity and Extinction
United in their belief that the conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the editors of this book bring together internationally known, similarly- minded experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss.
With a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, this book brings together internationally known experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss: how to determine conservation priorities in a scientific fashion, how to weigh the long-term, often hidden value of conservation against the more immediate value of land development, the need for education in areas of rapid population growth, and how lack of knowledge about biodiversity can impede conservation efforts.United in their belief that conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the contributing authors address the full scope of global biodiversity and its decline -- the threatened marine life and extinction of many mammals in the modern era in relation to global patterns of development, and the implications of biodiversity loss for human health, agricultural productivity, and the economy. The Living Planet in Crisis is the result of a conference of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
Review:
"[A] generally well-integrated volume that achieves both depth and breadth on the complex subject matter.... this book illuminates a vital nexus where attention is urgently needed." -- Nina-Marie Lister, Environments
Table of contents:
14. Seeing the World as It Really Is: Global Stability and Environmental Change, by Peter H. Raven and Joel Cracraft
13. Strange Bedfellows: Why Science and Policy Don't Mesh and What Can Be Done About It, by Jeffrey A. McNeely
IV. What Needs to Be Done
12. Convention on Biological Diversity: Program Priorities in the Early Stage of Implementation, by Kalemani J. Mulongoy, Susan Bragdon, and Antonella Ingrassia
11. The Facts of Life (on Earth), by Thomas E. Lovejoy
10. Saving Biodiversity and Saving the Biosphere, by Norman Myers
III. Biodiversity Science and Policy Formulation
9. The Economic Consequences of Biodiversity Loss, by Dominic Moran and David Pearce
8. Biodiversity Loss and Its Implications for Security and Armed Conflict, by Arthur H. Westing
7. The Implications of Biodiversity Loss for Human Health, by Francesca T. Grifo and Eric Chivian
6. Biodiversity, Agricultural Productivity, and People, by John Burnett
5. Regional and Global Patterns of Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Capacity: Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Needs, by Joel Cracraft
II. Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: Science and Society
4. Requiem 'ternam: The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinctions, by Ross D. E. MacPhee and Clare Flemming
3. The Medium Is the Message: Freshwater Biodiversity in Peril, by Melanie L. J. Stiassny
2. Dimensions of Biodiversity: Targeting Megadiverse Groups, by Norman I. Platnick
1. The Magnitude of Global Biodiversity and Its Decline, by Nigel E. Stork
I. Science of Diversity and Extinction
United in their belief that the conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the editors of this book bring together internationally known, similarly- minded experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss.