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The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2005/06
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 60.00The Yearbook provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge issues in environmental and resource economics. The expert contributors address some of today's most pressing environmental topics including: issues in water pricing reforms; spatial environmental policy; environmental equity and the siting of hazardous waste facilities; strategies to conserve... more...
Handbook of Market Creation for Biodiversity
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 53.00The loss of biodiversity affects us in many ways. For some of us, its loss is felt in the same way that we regret the destruction of a great work of art -- it may not affect us directly, but the indirect impact is strong. For others, its loss is felt in changes in lifestyles and livelihoods -- the measurable costs are high. more...
The Role of Biodiversity Conservation in the Transition to Rural Sustainability
IOS Press 2004; US$ 116.00This book presents interdisciplinary advances in theory and practice pertaining to rural sustainability and sets forth an action research agenda and policy prescriptions to support rural sustainability with special emphasis on the Accession Countries to the EU. The book will address four themes. more...
Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation in Northern Mexico
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 139.99Encompassing tropical and temperate forests, arid lands, and the Gulf of California, northern Mexico is one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. Representing the collaborative efforts of ecologists in the U.S. and Mexico, this volume provides an overview of the area's biological wealth and identifies challenges to its long-term cons more...
Geodiversity
Wiley 2004; US$ 249.95A counterpoint to biodiversity, geodiversity describes the rocks, sediments, soils, fossils, landforms, and the physical processes that underlie our environment. The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society, as well as... more...
Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene
University of California Press 2004; US$ 145.00This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world?Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. With tens of thousands of identified specimens, this site has become the key source of information on the fauna of North America's... more...
Harnessing Markets for Biodiversity
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 35.00Governments and private sector actors are increasingly recognising the potential of harnessing markets to help arrest the degradation of biodiversity. The private provision of biodiversity products and services is proving to be quite feasible in some circumstances. more...
Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems, 2nd Edition
Haworth Press 2004; US$ 79.95Completely updated for 2004, this new edition examines methods for making agricultural systems less susceptible to insect pests. Containing new research findings and reports of pest management strategies, Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems, Second Edition will show you how pests can be managed by enhancing beneficial biodiversity using... more...
Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity
CRC Press 2006; US$ 129.95Based on applied research from across the globe, this book focuses on the interaction between disturbances in mountains, primarily anthropogenic in origin, and the mountain biota that determine responses to such disturbances. more...
Protecting Biodiversity
International Development Research Centre 1999; US$ 20.00Protecting Biodiversity addresses one of the most fundamental aspects of this important issue: the lack of adequate national laws regulating access to, and compensation for, the use of local genetic resources. This book is the first to compare such laws and policies across a range of countries in both the industrialized and developing worlds, including... more...









