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Conserving biodiversity : a research agenda for development agencies : report of a panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, U.S. National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biodiversity conservation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSERVATION
- Biological Surveys, Inventory, and Monitoring
- National Biological Inventories
- Global Biological Survey
- Screening of Organisms
- Monitoring
- Conservation Research
- Site-Specific Research
- Conservation Biology Principles and Methods
- Sustainable Use of Biological Resources
- Restoring and Utilizing Degraded Lands
- Information Needs
- Computer Data Bases and Inventories
- Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
- Strengthening Scientific Networks
- Human Resources
- Developing Taxonomic Expertise
- Strengthening Local Institutions
- Expanding Cooperative Research Programs
- SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT
- Project-or Country-Level Research
- International Economic Research
- Global Macroeconomic Research
- CULTURAL CONTEXT
- Local Management Systems
- Adapting Local Knowledge
- Promoting Local Knowledge
- Priority Groups
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- CONCLUSION
- 1 Biodiversity and Development
- BIODIVERSITY: DEFINITIONS AND VALUES
- LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY
- Natural Versus Accelerated Rates of Biodiversity Loss
- SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF BIODIVERSITY
- Plants
- Fungi
- Microorganisms
- Invertebrates
- Vertebrates
- Tropical Aquatic Systems
- Marine Biota
- IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
- Responding to Research Needs
- 2 Biological Aspects of Conservation
- BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS, INVENTORY, AND MONITORING
- Research Priorities
- CONSERVATION RESEARCH
- Research Requirements
- Goals and Guidelines
- Recommended Areas for Site Selection
- Research Priorities.
- Conservation Biology Principles and Methods
- Restoring and Using Degraded Lands
- INFORMATION NEEDS
- HUMAN RESOURCES
- 3 Biodiversity Research: The Socioeconomic Context
- ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND THE CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
- PROJECT-OR COUNTRY-LEVEL ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- Analysis of Causal Mechanisms
- Research Agenda
- Valuation Research
- Research on Economic Incentives and Disincentives
- INTERNATIONAL-LEVEL ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION
- 4 Biodiversity Research: The Cultural Context
- DIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT
- LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND BIODIVERSITY
- Nature of Local Knowledge
- Tropical Technologies
- Shifting Agriculture
- Intensive Agricultural Systems
- Extensive Systems
- Tropical Forests
- RESEARCH ON LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
- Priority Groups for Research
- A Cultural Research Agenda
- Use of Resources-Social Concepts of Biodiversity
- Effects of Land or Resource Tenure and Uses on Biological Diversity
- Impact of Changing Conditions
- Social Valuation of Biodiversity at the National Level
- References and Recommended Reading
- Board on Science and Technology for International Development
- MEMBERS
- HOW TO ORDER BOSTID REPORTS
- ENERGY
- TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS
- PLANTS
- INNOVATIONS IN TROPICAL FORESTRY
- MANAGING TROPICAL ANIMAL RESOURCES
- HEALTH
- RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- FORTHCOMING BOOKS FROM BOSTID
- BOSTID Publication Distributors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-116).
- ISBN:
- 9786610211449
- 9781280211447
- 128021144X
- 9780309584302
- 0309584302
- 9780585143675
- 0585143676
- OCLC:
- 43477014
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