Biodiversity Indicators and the 2010 Biodiversity Target - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biodiversity Indicators and the 2010 Biodiversity Target write by . This book was released on 2010. Biodiversity Indicators and the 2010 Biodiversity Target available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Perspectives on Biodiversity
Perspectives on Biodiversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Biodiversity write by National Research Council. This book was released on 1999-10-01. Perspectives on Biodiversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect. Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components-including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity. The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.
Progress Towards the European 2010 Biodiversity Target
Progress Towards the European 2010 Biodiversity Target - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Progress Towards the European 2010 Biodiversity Target write by European Environment Agency. This book was released on 2009. Progress Towards the European 2010 Biodiversity Target available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first indicator-based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010, this report serves two purposes. First, it takes stock of the state of biodiversity and its loss in Europe based on the most recent data available. Second, it functions as a bridge to a comprehensive assessment of the 2010 target to be done in 2010. As such, the indicators in this report do not only show what is currently known. They also show where information is missing and what more needs to be measured and examined to enable a comprehensive assessment in 2010.
Nordic Biodiversity Beyond 2010
Nordic Biodiversity Beyond 2010 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nordic Biodiversity Beyond 2010 write by Nordiska Ministerrådet. This book was released on 2010. Nordic Biodiversity Beyond 2010 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We all depend on biodiversity, but we must make biodiversity relevant to people. The long-term loss of nature and biodiversity is, however, not as easily translated into clear messages, let alone economic opportunities, as are measures to tackle climate change. The changes are dispersed, and often act slowly and subtly. Connecting the economic problems and threats people face due to the degradation of our biological resources is also frequently hard to express in facts and figures, as we have seen with the efforts to replicate the review of the economic impacts of climate change. Yet we all see the impact of degradation and loss of biodiversity in our daily lives when we are hiking, fishing, hunting and enjoying nature. We must create a vision and a powerful metaphor, communicated to and understood by ordinary people, that describes our co-existence with and dependence upon nature and how the loss of nature reflects on ourselves as Nordic people and societies. The need to stop the loss of biodiversity does not end in 2010. What will we call upon now? That is our challenge. On 26-27 October 2009, the Nordic Council of Ministers hosted a Nordic symposium on biodiversity in Trondheim, Norway. The title chosen for this symposium was Nordic Biodiversity Beyond 2010 - Challenges and Experiences in Global Perspective. The aim was to take stock of Nordic biodiversity and look beyond 2010. About 70 participants from all the Nordic countries gathered in Trondheim for two days to start this work. They represented public authorities, non-governmental organizations and research institutions concerned with the goal of halting the loss of biodiversity in the Nordic countries. This report contains the results from this symposium as well as conclusions and recommendations for the future.
Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation
Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation write by Ben Collen. This book was released on 2013-02-14. Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing pressure. Scientists and policy makers are frequently hampered by a lack of information on biological systems, particularly information relating to long-term trends. Such information is crucial to developing an understanding as to how biodiversity may respond to global environmental change. Knowledge gaps make it very difficult to develop effective policies and legislation to reduce and reverse biodiversity loss. This book explores the gap between global commitments to biodiversity conservation, and local action to track biodiversity change and implement conservation action. High profile international political commitments to improve biodiversity conservation, such as the targets set by the Convention on Biological Diversity, require innovative and rapid responses from both science and policy. This multi-disciplinary perspective highlights barriers to conservation and offers novel solutions to evaluating trends in biodiversity at multiple scales.
