Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 317 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511492655
Content:
Biodiversity is the key indicator of a healthy planet and healthy society. Losses of biodiversity have now become widespread and current rates are potentially catastrophic for species and habitat integrity. Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities, first published in 2002, advocates both the preservation of the best remaining habitats and the enhancement of new biodiverse habitats to ensure that they cope with human impact, climate change and alien species invasion. The authors argue that these aims can be achieved by a mix of strict protection, inclusive involvement of people inside and adjacent to reserves, and by combining livelihoods and social well-being in all future biodiversity management. Case studies from regions around the world, including Europe, the United States, Latin America and Africa are examined and discussed, and the contributors include political scientists, economists and ecologists
Content:
Protecting beyond the protected / Tim O'Riordan -- Biodiversity: threats and challenges / Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Biodiversity and biodepletion: the need for a paradigm shift / Norman Myers -- People, livelihoods and collective action in biodiversity management / Jules Pretty -- Deliberative democracy and participatory biodiversity / Tim O'Riordan and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann -- The politics of biodiversity in Europe / Tim O'Riordan [and others] -- Community-based involvement in biodiversity protection in the United States / Toddi A. Steelman -- An ecoregional approach to biodiversity conservation in Cape Floral Kingdom, South Africa / Amanda Younge -- Wildlife management in Namibia: the conservancy approach / Markus A. Nuding -- Brazil: selling biodiversity with local livelihoods / Ione Egler -- The mixed experience of private sector involvement in biodiversity management in Costa Rica / Michael Sturm -- The uncertain role of biodiversity management in emerging democracies / Martin Welp [and others] -- Enhancing biodiversity and humanity / Susanne Stoll-Kleemann and Tim O'Riordan
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521813655
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521890526
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521813655
Language:
English
Keywords:
Nachhaltigkeit
;
Biodiversität
;
Umweltbewusstsein
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511492655
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