Global environmental problems are much more severe and complex than many of the public believe. This book explores the paradox of humanity's dependence on biodiversity and landscape systems for survival while simultaneously placing an enormous stress on the existence of these natural systems. Leading contributors to the fields of biodiversity conservation, ecology, economics, entomology, forestry, history, landscape management, philosophy and sociology draw from their unique disciplinary perspectives to consider the origins, bases and possible solutions to this pressing problem. The volume shows that the need for a solution is one of the most urgent facing humanity, yet the challenge of solving it is one that will require a major shift in the composite of human values.
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"Biodiversity and Landscapes is an ambitious book....The coverage is comprehensive....it is a worthwhile contribution, providing valuable background and fostering understanding of these important topics." D. Scott Slocombe, La Societe Canadienne des Biologistes de l'Environnement
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This book is concerned with the paradox that humanity depends on biodiversity and landscape systems for its very survival, yet, at the same time, the current burden of humanityts use of living resources places the existence of these natural systems at risk. Leading contributors to the fields of biodiversity conservation, ecology, economics, entomology, forestry, history, landscape management, philosophy and sociology draw from their unique disciplinary perspectives to consider the origins, bases and possible solutions to this pressing problem.
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Biodiversity - the biotic basis of plants, animals, and microbes on the earth - is being reduced at an alarming rate, just at the time when we need it most for sustaining human life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genetic wipeout, solar emergy, more emergy, slick terrain, emergy evaluation, exhaustive consumption, solar transformity, total human ecosystem, forest timber resources, planetary biodiversity, nonutilitarian values, urban horticulture, biosphere resources, current mass extinction, energy hierarchy, germplasm preservation, economic valuation, germplasm conservation, landscape heterogeneity, human abstraction, plant germplasm, conserving biological diversity, ecological justice, plant genetic resources, genetic erosion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Biodiversity - the biotic basis of plants, animals, and microbes on the earth - is being reduced at an alarming rate, just at the time when we need it most for sustaining human life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genetic wipeout, solar emergy, more emergy, slick terrain, emergy evaluation, exhaustive consumption, solar transformity, total human ecosystem, forest timber resources, planetary biodiversity, nonutilitarian values, urban horticulture, biosphere resources, current mass extinction, energy hierarchy, germplasm preservation, economic valuation, germplasm conservation, landscape heterogeneity, human abstraction, plant germplasm, conserving biological diversity, ecological justice, plant genetic resources, genetic erosion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World Bank, Cambridge University Press, New Haven, National Academy Press, Endangered Species Act, Yale University Press, United Nations, North America, Oxford University Press, Kissimmee River, Copan Valley, Classic Maya, Cold Submediterranean, Costa Rica, World Resources Institute, Environmental Protection Agency, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Westview Press, Illinois River, Aldo Leopold, Copan Pocket, Forest Service New!
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- Why Preserve Natural Variety? (Studies in Moral, Political, & Legal Philosophy) by Bryan G. Norton on 5 pages
- Landscape Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman on 4 pages
- A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold on 4 pages
- Conservation for the Twenty-first Century by David Western on page 25, page 26, and page 423
- Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective by Izaak S. Zonneveld on page 205, page 207, and page 250
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- The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland (Organisms and Environments) by Carl E. Bock in Back Matter
- The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland (Organisms and Environments) by Carl E. Bock in Back Matter
- A Future for Regional Australia: Escaping Global Misfortune by Ian Gray in Back Matter
- Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Bryan G. Norton on page 30
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