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024 7 _a10.1007/978-0-387-09565-3
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100 1 _aAskins, Robert A.
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245 1 0 _aSaving Biological Diversity
_h[recurso electrónico] :
_bBalancing Protection of Endangered Species and Ecosystems /
_cedited by Robert A. Askins, Glenn D. Dreyer, Gerald R. Visgilio, Diana M. Whitelaw.
264 1 _aBoston, MA :
_bSpringer US,
_c2008.
300 _bonline resource.
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505 0 _aSaving Biological Diversity: An Overview -- Saving Biological Diversity: An Overview -- Protecting Populations of Particular Species -- Toward a Policy-Relevant Definition of Biodiversity -- Navigating for Noah: Setting New Directions for Endangered Species Protection in the 21st Century -- Economics of Protecting Endangered Species -- The Center for Plant Conservation: Twenty Years of Recovering America's Vanishing Flora -- The Piping Plover as an Umbrella Species for the Barrier Beach Ecosystem -- Restoring Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) to New England -- Protecting Regional Ecosystems -- Sea Change: Changing Management to Protect Ocean Ecosystems -- Valuing Benefits from Ecosystem Improvements using Stated Preference Methods: An Example from Reducing Acidification in the Adirondacks Park -- Conserving Forest Ecosystems: Guidelines for Size, Condition and Landscape Requirements -- Restoring America's Everglades: A Lobbyist's Perspective -- The Need For Global Efforts To Save Biological Diversity -- A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment -- Creative Approaches to Preserving Biodiversity in Brazil and the Amazon -- Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Ocean Acidification: The Potential Impacts on Ocean Biodiversity -- Advancing Conservation in a Globalized World -- Protecting Biodiversity, from Flagship Species to the Global Environment.
520 _aThe distinctive contribution of this book is that it presents a pragmatic approach for preserving biological diversity. Experts in a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, environmental policy, law, economics and biology, present different perspectives on how to prevent widespread extinction around the world. Several chapters deal with basic questions such as how we should define biodiversity and how we should determine what is most important to save. Two chapters focus on how we can place an economic value on biological diversity, a step that is often critical for gaining acceptance for conservation efforts. One of the major conclusions is that people are often willing to pay to preserve natural systems that have no immediate value in terms of generating income or commodities. Other chapters are case studies of efforts to protect particular species or ecosystems; these provide practical guidelines for how to protect biodiversity more effectively. The book is divided into three sections: we start with discussions of efforts to protect endangered species; move to approaches for protecting intact, functioning natural ecosystems; and finish with proposals to protect the global natural system (the biosphere). It becomes clear as one progresses through these sections that these three approaches do not constitute distinctly different, much less competing, strategies for protecting biological diversity. Instead they are interdependent. Efforts to protect a particular endangered species typically lead to efforts to protect its ecosystem. Similarly, efforts to protect an ecosystem lead naturally to concerns about the atmosphere, climate and water supplies. The interdependence may also work in the other direction: loss of species potentially can undermine the stability and resilience of ecosystems, which can have a large negative impact on the biosphere. The main conclusion is that a wide range of approaches to conservation is needed to maintain diverse and ecologically functioning natural systems.
650 0 _aLIFE SCIENCES.
650 0 _aBIODIVERSITY.
650 0 _aENVIRONMENTAL LAW.
650 0 _aNATURE CONSERVATION.
650 0 _aENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS.
650 1 4 _aLIFE SCIENCES.
650 2 4 _aBIODIVERSITY.
650 2 4 _aNATURE CONSERVATION.
650 2 4 _aENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS.
650 2 4 _aENVIRONMENTAL LAW/POLICY/ECOJUSTICE.
700 1 _aDreyer, Glenn D.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aVisgilio, Gerald R.
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700 1 _aWhitelaw, Diana M.
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710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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