The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy

Book Overview

With a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, this book brings together internationally known experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss: how to determine conservation priorities in a scientific fashion, how to weigh the long-term, often hidden value of conservation against the more immediate value of land development, the need for education in areas of rapid population...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231108656
• ISBN13: 9780231108652
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"