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.

Contributor(s):

National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Biodiversity Research Priorities [issuing body.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1992Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (x, 127 pages))Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0309046831
9780309046831
0585143676
9780585143675
9780309584302
0309584302

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conserving biodiversity.DDC classification:

333.95/16 20

LOC classification:

QH75 .C6818 1992eb

NLM classification:

QH 541.15.B56

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

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""; ""National Biological Inventories""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Global Biological Survey""; ""Research Priorities""

""Screening of Organisms""""Research Priorities""; ""Monitoring""; ""Research Priorities""; ""CONSERVATION RESEARCH""; ""Site-Specific Research""; ""Research Requirements""; ""Goals and Guidelines""; ""Recommended Areas for Site Selection""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Conservation Biology Principles and Methods""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Sustainable Use of Biological Resources""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Restoring and Using Degraded Lands""; ""Research Priorities""; ""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""; ""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 Agenda""; ""Research on Economic Incentives and Disincentives""; ""Research Agenda""; ""INTERNATIONAL-LEVEL ECONOMIC RESEARCH""; ""GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH""

Abstract: 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.

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Title from PDF title page.

"Panel on Biodiversity Research Priorities"--Page iii.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

This report has been prepared by an ad hoc advisory panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development. Staff support was funded by the Office of the Science Advisor, Agency for International Development, under grant No. DAN-5538-G-SS-1023-00.

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