Human Exploitation and Biodiversity Conservation (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, 3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9048173299 ISBN 13: 9789048173297

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

This book presents a wide range of contributions addressing diverse aspects of biodiversity exploitation and conservation. These collectively provide a snapshot of ongoing action and state-of-the-art research, rather than a series of necessarily more superficial overviews. Examples presented here derive from studies in 17 countries including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. These reports will stimulate future work toward attaining a sustainable balance between the conservation and exploitation of biodiversity.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The sustainable use of biodiversity is one of the three key objectives of the 1992 "Convention on Biological Diversity". To achieve this, sound conservation practice has to be recognized as beneficial and implemented by all who access, or use it – from subsistence farmers to skiers and pharmaceutical bioprospectors. At the same time, indigenous peoples necessarily utilize enormous numbers of plants, fungi, and fish, particularly for foods and medicines.

This book gathers together a wide range of contributions addressing diverse aspects of front-line human involvement in biodiversity exploitation and conservation. Its scope is broad, the organisms explored ranging from birds, invertebrates and mammals – both terrestrial and aquatic – to crops and medicinal plants. Meanwhile, the issues addressed include land use changes, the importance of gardens, hedges and green lanes, housing developments, hunting, invasive species, local community involvement, sacred groves, socioeconomic factors and trade.

These peer reviewed case studies come from studies in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Providing a snap-shot of on-going action and state-of-the-art research, rather than a series of necessarily more superficial overviews, this collection will be of particular interest to courses including biodiversity and/or conservation issues, and to advanced students and researchers working in related fields.

 Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation 15:8 (2006).

Review

From the reviews:

"This absorbing volume brings together papers from ... the journal Biodiversity and Conservation. ... Each chapter ... is a little treasure house of biotic data, indigenous knowledge, or informed ideas about planning and implementing conservation projects. Overall, the collection is ... manageably grand in scope. ... The book is recommended as a useful addition to the library of conservation biologists, natural resource managers, grass-roots stakeholders and advocates, and, especially, students looking for a convenient entrée into the literature about global studies." (Gary Haynes, Ecology, Vol. 89 (6), 2008)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9048173299
• ISBN 13: 9789048173297
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 520
• Editor: Hawksworth David L., Bull Alan T.