The living planet in crisis : biodiversity science and policy /

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Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
Description:	xxiv, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Biological diversity conservation -- Government policy -- Congresses. Endangered species -- Social aspects -- Congresses. Biological diversity -- Congresses. Biodiversity. Biodiversity conservation -- Government policy. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3924524

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Other authors / contributors:	Cracraft, Joel. Grifo, Francesca T.
ISBN:	0231108648 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231108656 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Based on a conference held at the American Museum of Natural History in 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

14. Seeing the World as It Really Is: Global Stability and Environmental Change
13. Strange Bedfellows: Why Science and Policy Don't Mesh and What Can Be Done About It
IV. What Needs to Be Done
12. Convention on Biological Diversity: Program Priorities in the Early Stage of Implementation
11. The Facts of Life (on Earth)
10. Saving Biodiversity and Saving the Biosphere
III. Biodiversity Science and Policy Formulation
9. The Economic Consequences of Biodiversity Loss
8. Biodiversity Loss and Its Implications for Security and Armed Conflict
7. The Implications of Biodiversity Loss for Human Health
6. Biodiversity, Agricultural Productivity, and People
5. Regional and Global Patterns of Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Capacity: Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Needs
II. Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: Science and Society
4. Requiem 'ternam: The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinctions
3. The Medium Is the Message: Freshwater Biodiversity in Peril
2. Dimensions of Biodiversity: Targeting Megadiverse Groups
1. The Magnitude of Global Biodiversity and Its Decline
I. Science of Diversity and Extinction

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