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Author:   Alexander Wood ,  Pamela Stedman-Edwards ,  Johanna Mang ,  Johanna Mang (all Researchers, World Wide Fund for Nature)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Earthscan Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781853836992

ISBN 10:   1853836990
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 May 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Biodiversity loss is a complex socionatural problem. This Root Causes project accomplishes two agenda: (1) to develop an analytical approach to help identify, analyze, and organize the many complex factors that drive biodiversity loss and (2) to develop recommendations for how institutions and governments can, and should, address the root causes of biodiversity loss. The first five chapters ( An Emerging Consensus on Biodiversity Loss, A Framework for Analyzing Biodiversity Loss, Ten Case Studies: An Overview, Main Findings and Conclusions of the Root Causes Project, and Recommendations on Addressing the Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss ) succinctly set out the organization of the project and its recommendations; the final ten individually treat in case-study fashion the ten areas of the world (the Cerrado of Brazil, Cameroon, the southwestern forests of China, the Danube River Basin, India's Chilika Lake, a biosphere reserve in the Mexican Yucatan, mangrove forests in Pakistan and Tanzania, three of the Philippine islands, and the highlands of Vietnam) where the project was run to gain on-site familiarity with the problems at hand. No color graphics; some stylistic dryness; but generally the writing, editing, and accompanying figures, tables, and charts are clear and instructive. A significant treatment of a pressing worldwide problem. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --- C. H. Smith, Western Kentucky University in CHOICE

'I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is active in the field of nature or biodiversity conservation.' Pascal Lammar, Human Ecology Dept, Free University Brussels

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Alexander Wood, Pamela Stedman-Edwards and Johanna Mang are Senior Programme Officer, Principle Consultant and Program Manager of WWF's Macroeconomics Program Office, Washington DC.

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