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The root causes of biodiversity loss
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ISBN: 1853836990 Year: 2000 Publisher: Londres : Earthscan,

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The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes such as over-harvesting, pollution and habitat change have been well studied, but the socioeconomic factors driving people to degrade their environment are less well understood. This book examines the underlying causes. It provides analyses of a range of case studies from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Danube River Basin, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania and Vietnam, and integrates them into a new and interdisciplinary framework for understanding what is happening. From these results, the editors are able to derive policy conclusions and recommendations for operational and institutional approaches to address the root causes and reverse the current trends. It makes a contribution to the understanding of all those - from ecologists and conservationists to economists and policy makers - working on one of the major challenges we face.

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Ressource naturelle --- Natural resources --- Biodiversité --- Biodiversity --- Dégradation de l'environnement --- Environmental degradation --- Épuisement des ressources --- Resource depletion --- Environnement socioéconomique --- socioeconomic environment --- Impact sur l'environnement --- Environmental impact --- Étude de cas --- case studies --- Biodiversity. --- Extinction (Biology) --- Environmental degradation. --- Cameroon --- China --- Danube River --- India --- Mexico --- Pakistan --- Philippines --- République-Unie de Tanzanie --- United Republic of Tanzania --- Viet Nam --- Nature --- Effect of human beings on. --- CON Bioconservation --- Brazil = Brasil --- Cameroun = Cameroon --- Danube Basin --- Tanzania = Tanzanie ( = Tanganyika = German East Africa = British East Africa (after 1918) ) --- Vietnam --- bioconservation --- biodiversity --- Extinction (Biology). --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Animals --- Extirpation (Biology) --- Biology --- Extinct animals --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Effect of human beings on --- Extinction --- Extirpation

The forests handbook
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ISBN: 0632048212 0632048239 0632048182 9780632048212 9780632048236 9780632048182 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford ; Malden (Mass.) : Blackwell Science,

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Forests and forestry --- forests --- Aménagement forestier --- Forest management --- Développement durable --- Sustainable development --- History --- Étude de cas --- case studies --- Canada --- France --- Great Britain --- Australia --- Malaysia --- Swaziland --- Classification --- classification --- Planting stock --- Arbre forestier --- forest trees --- Sol de forêt --- Forest soils --- Écologie forestière --- forest ecology --- Impact sur l'environnement --- Environmental impact --- Production forestière --- Forestry production --- Faune --- Fauna --- Flore --- Flora --- Produit forestier non ligneux --- Nonwood forest products --- world --- 630 --- 630*627.9 --- Forestry --- Ecological forestry --- Forests and forestry. --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry --- Forestry (General) --- DEN Dendrology & Forestry --- dendrology & forestry --- forest types --- natural resources --- Forestry (General). --- 630*627.9 Ecological forestry --- 630 Forestry --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- classification. --- FORESTS --- FORESTRY --- FOREST MANAGEMENT --- NATIONAL PARKS --- NATURE RESERVES --- BIODIVERSITY --- SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY --- FOREST SOILS --- PEST MANAGEMENT --- TREES --- URBAN ENVIRONMENT --- RAIN FORESTS --- HANDBOOKS --- CONSERVATION --- SUSTAINABILITY --- DISEASE CONTROL --- PARTNERSHIPS --- SOCIOECONOMICS --- BRITISH COLUMBIA --- NORMANDY --- UNITED KINGDOM --- VICTORIA --- MALAYSIA --- SWAZILAND --- FOREST RESOURCES --- VEGETATION TYPES --- FOREST PRODUCTS --- SPECIATION --- DYNAMICS --- ECOSYSTEMS --- ECOPHYSIOLOGY --- MODELS --- ATMOSPHERE --- HYDROLOGY --- ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS --- POLLUTION --- HUMAN POPULATIONS --- INTERACTIONS --- ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS --- SOCIOLOGY

The ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources.
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ISBN: 0792364422 9401058059 9401141363 Year: 2000 Publisher: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers,

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It is a distressing truism that the human race during the last millennium has caused the exponential loss of plant genetic diversity throughout the world. This has had direct and negative economic, political and social consequences for the human race, which at the same time has failed to exploit fully the positive benefits that might result from conserving and exploiting the world's plant genetic resources. However, a strong movement to halt this loss of plant diversity and enhance its utilisation for the benefit of all humanity has been underway since the 1960's (Frankel and Bennett, 1970; Frankel and Hawkes, 1975). This initiative was taken up by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992) that not only expounds the need to conserve biological diversity but links conservation to exploitation and development for the benefit of all. Article 8 of the Convention clearly states the need to develop more effective and efficient guidelines to conserve biological diversity, while Article 9, along with the FAO International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources, promotes the adoption of a complementary approach to conservation that incorporates both ex situ and in situ techniques.

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Ressource végétale --- Plant resources --- Biodiversité --- Biodiversity --- Plante sauvage --- Wild plants --- Plante de culture --- Crops --- Conservation des ressources --- Resource conservation --- Germplasm --- Pool de gènes --- Gene pools --- Évaluation --- evaluation --- Contexte économique --- economic environment --- Traitement des données --- Data processing --- Analyse de données --- Data analysis --- Étude de cas --- case studies --- Oryza --- Triticum --- Solanum --- Musa --- Coffea --- Trifolium --- Leucaena --- Orchidaceae --- 631.526 --- 502.753 --- 574.472 --- Groups and types of cultivated plants. Genetic resources --- Protection of individual plant species from extinction, extermination --- CON Bioconservation --- bioconservation --- conservation --- ex situ conservation --- genebanks --- nature conservation --- plant genetic resources --- 574.472 Biodiversity --- 502.753 Protection of individual plant species from extinction, extermination --- 631.526 Groups and types of cultivated plants. Genetic resources --- Germplasm resources conservation --- Germplasm resources, Plant --- Conservation of plant genetic resources --- Conservation of plant germplasm resources --- Plant genetic resources --- Plant germplasm resources --- Plants, Cultivated --- Germplasm resources --- Conservation of germplasm resources --- Genetic resources conservation --- Germplasm conservation --- Germplasm resource conservation --- Conservation of natural resources --- evaluation. --- Plant ecology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Human genetics. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Plant Ecology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Human Genetics. --- Plant Sciences. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Botany --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Ecology --- Floristic botany --- Floristic ecology

Conservation of genetic resources : Costs and implications for a sustainable utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
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ISBN: 3540653430 3642635997 3642584500 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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Over the past decade the importance of natural resources for sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed at international forums and conferences. Aside from the sustainable management of soil, water, and air, it now seems to be accepted that the sustainable management of genetic resources is one of the four indispensable preconditions for a sustainable agriculture. The discussion on conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), however, has to reflect the costs of conservation as well. These have not yet been discussed intensively. The study analyzes the conservation costs of plant genetic resources; it also assesses the effectiveness of conservation and the efficiency of the different conservation instruments. It is based on extensive surveys in relevant countries. Following the detailed cost and impact analysis, the results show that the effectiveness of conservation strategies may be increased.

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Ressource végétale --- Plant resources --- Ressource génétique --- genetic resources --- Conservation des ressources --- Resource conservation --- Conservation du matériel génétique --- Germplasm conservation --- Pool de gènes --- Gene pools --- Contexte économique --- economic environment --- Étude de cas --- case studies --- Germany --- India --- 631.526 --- 502.753 --- Germplasm resources, Plant --- Genetic resources conservation --- #ABIB:atte --- Conservation of germplasm resources --- Germplasm resource conservation --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation of plant genetic resources --- Conservation of plant germplasm resources --- Plant genetic resources --- Plant germplasm resources --- Plants, Cultivated --- Germplasm resources --- Groups and types of cultivated plants. Genetic resources --- Protection of individual plant species from extinction, extermination --- CON Bioconservation --- bioconservation --- conservation --- ex situ conservation --- in situ conservation --- nature conservation --- 502.753 Protection of individual plant species from extinction, extermination --- 631.526 Groups and types of cultivated plants. Genetic resources --- Germplasm resources conservation --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Nature conservation. --- Environmental economics. --- Agriculture. --- Forestry. --- Biotechnology. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Nature Conservation. --- Environmental Economics. --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Conservation --- Germplasm resources, Plant. --- Propriete intellectuelle

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