Biodiversity Conservation And Utilization In A Diverse World

Author : Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535107194

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Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World by Gbolagade Akeem Lameed Pdf

This book "Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World" sees biodiversity as management and utilization of resources in satisfying human needs in multi-sectional areas including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and other exhaustible and inexhaustible resources. Its value is to fulfill actual human preferences and variability of life is measured by amount of genetic variation available. In viewing diversity as an ultimate moral value, one is faced with a situation in environmental preservation in order to allow components of total diversity to flourish and constitute a threat to continuous existence and decrease total diversity. The overall importance described economic benefits from bio-diversity, though difficult to measure and varying, but are limited on a local scale, increase on a regional or national scale and become potentially substantial on a transnational or global scale.

Author : Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9535153145

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Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World by Gbolagade Akeem Lameed Pdf

This book "Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World" sees biodiversity as management and utilization of resources in satisfying human needs in multi-sectional areas including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and other exhaustible and inexhaustible resources. Its value is to fulfill actual human preferences and variability of life is measured by amount of genetic variation available. In viewing diversity as an ultimate moral value, one is faced with a situation in environmental preservation in order to allow components of total diversity to flourish and constitute a threat to continuous existence and decrease total diversity. The overall importance described economic benefits from bio-diversity, though difficult to measure and varying, but are limited on a local scale, increase on a regional or national scale and become potentially substantial on a transnational or global scale.

Author : Jeffrey A. McNeely,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Publisher : International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021633832

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Conserving the World's Biological Diversity by Jeffrey A. McNeely,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Pdf

Author : Timothy Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134174744

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Global Action for Biodiversity by Timothy Swanson Pdf

At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity. Since then, over 160 countries have ratified the Convention, three Conferences of the Parties have taken place and a permanent secretariat has been established. Despite this, there remains a lot of uncertainty and even more controversy about what the Convention was intended to accomplish and how it was to do so. This book, published in association with the IUCN - The World Conservation Union, sets out to answer some of these questions by recounting the history of the movements leading up to the Convention, but especially by analysing the forces giving rise to the problem. It provides a specific set of policy prescriptions intended to facilitate the development of institutions and obligations within the international community which will give real effect to the aspirations of the Convention, and the ensure that it has some real effect at ground level. The author begins with an overview of the issues and then develops the basic nature of the problems within a bio-economic framework. He highlights the gaps in the Convention which remain to be filled, offers detailed explanations of the concepts involved and describes the nature of the solutions required. Thus he sets out a detailed plan for global action in support of an effective international convention for the conservation of biological diversity. The book is an excellent introduction to a very topical debate, and a valuable reference point for conservationists, policy makers and students of development studies, environmental studies, environmental policy and conservation biology.

Author : World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401122825

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Global Biodiversity by World Conservation Monitoring Centre Pdf

Global Biodiversity is the most comprehensive compendium of conservation information ever published. It provides the first systematic report on the status, distribution, management, and utilisation of the planet's biological wealth.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Noneconomic and Economic Value of Biodiversity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309065818

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Perspectives on Biodiversity by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Noneconomic and Economic Value of Biodiversity Pdf

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.

Author : Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher : IntechOpen
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9535107186

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Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World by Gbolagade Akeem Lameed Pdf

This book - Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World - considered biodiversity (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes) from three different angles: genetics, species, and ecosystems. The relationships between them are complex and it looks at these aspects from different angles and also various interventions at different levels. The scientific approach of the book demonstrates that the three levels are closely inter-connected and action is therefore needed to conserve and protect the systems if the benefits provided to human life will continue to be available. However, conservation of the biological diversity is essentially an umbrella term for traditional species, relationship to human health, ecosystem conservation and the need to manage the human use of the species and ecosystems in a sustainable way.

Author : Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535107187

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Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World by Gbolagade Akeem Lameed Pdf

This book - Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World - considered biodiversity (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes) from three different angles: genetics, species, and ecosystems. The relationships between them are complex and it looks at these aspects from different angles and also various interventions at different levels. The scientific approach of the book demonstrates that the three levels are closely inter-connected and action is therefore needed to conserve and protect the systems if the benefits provided to human life will continue to be available. However, conservation of the biological diversity is essentially an umbrella term for traditional species, relationship to human health, ecosystem conservation and the need to manage the human use of the species and ecosystems in a sustainable way.

Author : Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher : IntechOpen
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9535107186

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Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World by Gbolagade Akeem Lameed Pdf

This book - Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World - considered biodiversity (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes) from three different angles: genetics, species, and ecosystems. The relationships between them are complex and it looks at these aspects from different angles and also various interventions at different levels. The scientific approach of the book demonstrates that the three levels are closely inter-connected and action is therefore needed to conserve and protect the systems if the benefits provided to human life will continue to be available. However, conservation of the biological diversity is essentially an umbrella term for traditional species, relationship to human health, ecosystem conservation and the need to manage the human use of the species and ecosystems in a sustainable way.

Author : Frank E. Zachos,Jan Christian Habel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642209925

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Biodiversity Hotspots by Frank E. Zachos,Jan Christian Habel Pdf

Biodiversity and its conservation are among the main global topics in science and politics and perhaps the major challenge for the present and coming generations. This book written by international experts from different disciplines comprises general chapters on diversity and its measurement, human impacts on biodiversity hotspots on a global scale, human diversity itself and various geographic regions exhibiting high levels of diversity. The areas covered range from genetics and taxonomy to evolutionary biology, biogeography and the social sciences. In addition to the classic hotspots in the tropics, the book also highlights various other ecosystems harbouring unique species communities including coral reefs and the Southern Ocean. The approach taken considers, but is not limited to, the original hotspot definition sensu stricto and presents a chapter introducing the 35th hotspot, the forests of East Australia. While, due to a bias in data availability, the majority of contributions on particular taxa deal with vertebrates and plants, some also deal with the less-studied invertebrates. This book will be essential reading for anyone involved with biodiversity, particularly researchers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, ecology and evolution.

Author : Janet N. Abramovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : MINN:31951D00510945S

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Investing in Biological Diversity by Janet N. Abramovitz Pdf

Introduction; Methods; Results; Conclusions; Questionnaire and categories used to classify biological diversity research and conservation activities; U.S. biodiversity investments per 100 hectares, 1989; 1989 Biological diversity research and conservation activities and implementors by region and country.

Author : National Research Council,Board on Science and Technology for International Development
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309046831

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Conserving Biodiversity by National Research Council,Board on Science and Technology for International Development Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Markussen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 3540240225

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Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity by Michael Markussen Pdf

The goal of this transdisciplinary book is to identify the problems and challenges facing implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - from the global, regional and local points of view. The valuation and conservation of biodiversity are critical first steps necessary for the adequate protection of the environment. The authors give insights into the the influences the CBD exerts, and current trends in the field.

Author : Shashi Kumar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agrobiodiversity
ISBN : 812690125X

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Biodiversity and Food Security by Shashi Kumar Pdf

The Value Of Biodiversity May Be Judged By Considering The Economic, Ecological, Anthropological, Recreational And Epistemic Benefits Derived From It. Traditional Knowledge, Innovations And Practices Are Of Importance For The Conservation Of Biological Diversity And Sustainable Use Of Its Components With Respect To Our Biological And Intellectual Heritage.The Topics Covered In This Book Include : Concept Of Human Ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation And Sustainable Agriculture; Diverse Women For Diversity; Globalization Of Food; Globalization Of Agriculture; Biological And Intellectual Heritage Protection; Status Of Plant Genetic Resources; Conservation And Utilization In Asia Pacific Region; Ecology And Technological Changes; Gender And Society In India; Status Of India'S Health And Healing.This Publication Is An Attempt To Take Appropriate Action At All Levels For A Change In Human Values And Behaviour Towards The Holistic Environmental Ethics For Better And Safe Future Of Mankind. The Integration Of Environment And Development Concern Necessarily Requires Global Co-Operation To Achieve The Goal Of Sustainable Development Not Only In Agriculture But Also In The Entire National Economy.

Author : Philippe G. Le Prestre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351932530

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Governing Global Biodiversity by Philippe G. Le Prestre Pdf

Predictions about the success of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are pessimistic. It has now become commonplace to bemoan the scope, ambition, and deeply political nature of a convention that addresses issues ranging from ecosystems protection to the exploitation of genetic resources, from conservation to justice, and from commerce to scientific knowledge. Ten years after its adoption, how can we assess the difference that the CBD has made? Is it in danger of collapsing under its own weight or is it building the foundations of new patterns of relations between societies and nature? What achievements can we record and what challenges does it face? In this book, which is unique in its scope, diversity and the wealth of information it contains, contributors from a variety of academic disciplines tackle an issue of enduring importance to the protection of biodiversity and enhance our understanding of humanity's capacity to reconcile its various aspirations and halt the destructive path upon which it is set.