Widening Perspectives on Biodiversity
Author: Anatole F. Krattiger
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 500
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Author: Anatole F. Krattiger
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 030906581X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResource-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.
Author: Ram Bir Singh Kushwah
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9788176482097
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Author: Anselm Kratochwil
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9401146772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume does not aim at merely adding to the vast and increasing number of individual publications on `biodiversity'. Rather it is our objective to investigate biodiversity on the previously little studied coenosis and landscape levels. Phytosociological and animal-ecological fields are considered, as well as theoretical approaches to biodiversity and aspects of its application in nature and landscape protection and preservation. Since biodiversity has so far been predominantly studied in the Anglo-American area, it seemed to be of value to discuss this complex topic from a central and southern European viewpoint, based on data gathered in these regions, and thus to promote a global discussion.
Author: Melissa R. Marselle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 3030023184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning – and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This transdisciplinary book will attract a wide audience interested in biodiversity, ecology, resource management, public health, psychology, urban planning, and landscape architecture. The emphasis is on multiple human health benefits from biodiversity - in particular with respect to the increasing challenge of climate change. This makes the book unique to other books that focus either on biodiversity and physical health or natural environments and mental wellbeing. The book is written as a definitive ‘go-to’ book for those who are new to the field of biodiversity and health.
Author: Narayan Belbase
Publisher: Iucn Nepal
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 144
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Author: Jeremy JC Mallinson
Publisher: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
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Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-09-12
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0822349574
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Author: Ikechi Mgbeoji
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0774840250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.
Author: Padmashree Gehl Sampath
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9280811126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBioprospecting--the search for useful biochemical compounds and genes in nature--has been the focus of international negotiations for more than a decade. This book examines the optimal property rights structures and institutional mechanisms for regulating bioprospecting for drug research. It includes examples of bioprospecting collaborations in several countries.