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Ben Collen (Ed.) - Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action - 9781444332926 - V9781444332926
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Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action

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Description for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Collen, Ben; Pettorelli, Nathalie; Baillie, Jonathan E. M.; Durant, Sarah M.; Krueger, Linda. Series: Conservation Science and Practice. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 774.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Conservation Science and Practice
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444332926
SKU
V9781444332926
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Ben Collen (Ed.)
Ben Collen is head of the Indicators & Assessments Unit at the Zoological Society of London.  His research is focussed on developing indicators to monitor change in biodiversity and help guide policy responses to conservation problems.  He conducts local scale monitoring on tropical forest fauna in Liberia, and penguins in the Antarctic. Nathalie Pettorelli is a population ecologist, whose ... Read more

Reviews for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action
“If you are a teacher, conservation scientist, or biodiversity manager and want to choose one book integrating biodiversity monitoring and indicators, this is the volume to get.”  (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 October 2015) “This does nothing to take away from the editors’ primary accomplishment, however, which is to have produced the most authoritative volume currently available ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action


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