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From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity - Conceptual and Practical Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019) Loot Price: R1,691
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From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity - Conceptual and Practical Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Elena Casetta, Jorge...

From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity - Conceptual and Practical Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva, Davide Vecchi

Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 24

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This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so?The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that "thing" to which the word 'biodiversity' refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.

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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 24
Release date: March 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Elena Casetta • Jorge Marques da Silva • Davide Vecchi
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 452
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-010990-5
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > Biodiversity
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General
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LSN: 3-03-010990-9
Barcode: 9783030109905

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