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Modern Trends in Applied Terrestrial Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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Modern Trends in Applied Terrestrial Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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Ecology and economics have Greek roots in oikos for "household,"
logos for "study," and nomics for "management." Thus, ecology and
economics should have complemented one another for a proper growth
and development without destruction, but, unfortunately, rapid
industrialization, lure for fast financial gains, and
commercialization activities have led to a widespread surge in
pollution load, environmental degradation, habitat destruction,
rapid loss ofbiodiversity, sudden rise in rate ofextinction ofmany
wildlife and wild relatives of domesticated animals and cultivated
cereals and other plants, global climate changes creating global
rise in temperature, and CO levels and increased ultraviolet B at
ground 2 level. Although these threats to human health have led us
to look to ecology for their solutions and guidance for sustainable
development without destruction, the industrial and technology
houses are looking for alternative methods of development and
resource use methods. The two global conferences of the United
Nations in 1972 and 1992, and international programs of Man and the
Biosphere (MAB), International Biological Program (IBP),
International Geosphere, Biosphere program (lGBP), and World Conser
vation Union (IUCN), of different commissions, United Nations
Environmental Program (UNEP) efforts, Ramsar Conventions (for
wetlands), and World Wide fund for Nature (WWF) (for nature in
general and wildlife in particular) have focused attention of
ecologists, naturalists, governments and Non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) toward better conservation."
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