86 research outputs found
Book Review: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, & Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, & Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective edited by NaeemShahid, BunkerDaniel E., HectorAndy, LoreauMichel and PerringsCharles (2009), xiv +368 pp., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199547951 (hbk), GBP 75.00; ISBN 9780199547968 (pbk), GBP 37.50
Sharing the benefits of biodiversity: some perspectives from the recent history of conservation
Book Review: Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World: Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World. By HansenLara J. and HoffmanJennifer R. (2011), x + 245 pp., Island Press, Washington D.C. ISBN 978-1-59726-685-7 (hbk); 1-59726-685-X (pbk)
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Working Session of IUCN's Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA), Held in Lima, Peru, During 21-28 June 1981
Book Review: Scarcity or Abundance: a Debate on the Environment: Scarcity or Abundance: a Debate on the Environment, by MyersNorman and SimonJulian L.. W.W. Norton & Co., New York & London: xix + 254 pp., 21.5 Γ 14.5 Γ 2.5 cm, illustr., hard-bound US $21, 1994
Book Review: Nature's Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty: Nature's Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty by PerfectoIvette, VandermeerJohn and WrightAngus (2009), x + 242 pp., Earthscan, London, UK. ISBN 9781844077816 (hbk), GBP 85.00; ISBN 9781844077823 (pbk), GBP 24.95
Important Prospect: Fourth World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas, to be held in Caracas, Venezuela, during 10-21 February 1992
Fourth World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas, held in Caracas, Venezuela, during 10-21 February 1992
How Conservation Strategies Contribute to Sustainable Development
The world is now so tied together by flows of energy, information, and commodities, that action in one part of it is likely to have implications for many other parts. Numerous biological resources β particularly wildlife and forests β are being depleted more by foreign demand than by direct local consumption. Money earned by depleting resources is then often invested in imported industrial products, which themselves may have had negative environmental impacts in the country of their production. As examples we may cite certain pesticides which, on being banned in the countries of their production, are exported to other
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