Conserving Biodiversity:

A Research Agenda for Development Agencies

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Size: 140 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1992

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Panel on Biodiversity Research Priorities, National Research Council
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The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where the conditions of human existence are most difficult. Conserving Biodiversity presents an agenda for research that ...
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FRONT MATTER	i-x	(skim)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY	1-11	(skim)
1 BIODIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT	12-34	(skim)
2 BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSERVATION	35-75	(skim)
3 BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT	76-89	(skim)
4 BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: THE CULTURAL CONTEXT	90-111	(skim)
REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDED READING	112-116	(skim)
BOARD ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BOSTID)	117-117	(skim)
BOSTID PUBLICATIONS	118-127	(skim)

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The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where the conditions of human existence are most difficult. Conserving Biodiversity presents an agenda for research that can provide information to formulate policy and design conservation programs in the Third World.
The book includes discussions of research needs in the biological sciences as well as economics and anthropology, areas of critical importance to conservation and sustainable development. Although specifically directed toward development agencies, non-governmental organizations, and decisionmakers in developing nations, this volume should be of interest to all who are involved in the conservation of biological diversity.

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"...this book is a concise and convenient summary of data and ideas relevant to biodiversity. The organization of this book, along with its clear, non-technical presentation should make it useful to the development agencies for whom it is written."Economic Botany

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