.... It also assesses the role of epistemic communities in promoting local identities, as well as the emergence of global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. While climate change has implications for a global public good that transcends nation-state boundaries...

... of a post-modern world that grapples with problems of climate, land degradation, chemical transfers, and biodiversity. The central theme of the book is that plurality and diversity lie at the root of ensuring that a globalized world offers happiness to its citizens....

...Climate is an important driver of biodiversity in the GCFR and the region is thus potentially vulnerable to climate change. The climate in the region has warmed over the last century, but there has been no clear trend in rainfall. Further warming and moderate drying are predicted for the region...

...The major threats to biodiversity: habitat loss, invasive species, over-harvesting, and pollution, impact parasites as well as hosts. Given the interest in the role of parasites in ecosystems and the fact that most ecosystems are impacted by human activities, it would be useful to understand...

... food systems sustainability agriculture tropical forests land use conversion cash crops transnational corporations biofuels animal feeds biodiversity Agricultural output has grown rapidly over the last decade, and continues to expand to meet the needs of a larger and more affluent population...

... to examine migration across a biodiverse set of organisms and with integration across biological disciplines. Suggestions are made as to future directions for research on migration, stressing the need to distinguish between migratory behavior and its evolutionary and ecological outcomes. inhibition...

..., the recent concentration on biodiversity may have tended to obscure the fundamental importance of biomass, which will often be dominated by a limited number of species. This ‘mass ratio’ effect is important both at the ecological community and planetary scale. Once biomass is sufficient for the merging...

... per se, which legal systems may find more problematic. In particular, the notion of damage to ‘biological diversity’ requires careful consideration, especially in light of the definition in the Biodiversity Convention. In the same context, while compensable damage should include the costs...

...This chapter states that one of the most vexing problems facing ecologists and economists today is how to measure the value of environmental goods whose destruction generates vast externalities. Biodiversity, which is the variety of genetically distinct populations and species of plants, animals...

... states of the EU, Romania and Bulgaria, with respect to their adaptation to two domains of EU environmental regulation: biodiversity conservation and chemicals safety. CEE Central and Eastern European Countries EU European Union transnational networks Alter Karen Andonova L B Bruszt László Burley...

...This chapter describes ecology of the Galapagos rocky reef system and the important role of biogeographic position on biodiversity, the El Niño cycle, and the history of resource extraction on the current state of the ecosystem. The chapter presents a model of the energetic pathways...

...Until the 1990s, the province of Palawan was the final ecological frontier in the Philippines. Its relatively intact natural resources and unusually rich biodiversity made it the focus of attempts to create a model for sustainable development, particularly through the development of ecotourism...

...Presents an analysis of multilateralism in American foreign environmental policy, focusing on the issues of ozone depletion, climate change, and biodiversity, and arguing that the evolution of US perspectives on environmental multilateralism reflects a fundamental split in the US policy arena...

... North morality critical realism epistemological pluralism God Pascal Blaise pluralist epistemology realism idealism ontology ecosystems immediate experience memory trout fishing biodiversity I founded the Center for Humans and Nature in 2003 to explore and promote long-term moral and civic...

... destruction and habitat destruction by cattle Lake Okareka Walkway New Zealand New Zealand Canterbury biodiversity conservation strategy rats control practices restoration and monitoring projects educational role birds habitat for big vs small animals stormwater runoff developer planning role...

...This chapter discusses the various green certification programs and how they relate to biodiversity conservation. Often, green certification programs do not adequately address biodiversity. Strategies and examples are listed for how residents can question and explore the benefits of various green...

...This chapter discusses the conceptual basis of using ecological niche modeling for discovering new elements of biodiversity. More specifically, it examines the use of ecological niche models to guide searches for and discovery of unknown populations of species as well as species limits. It also...

...This chapter examines how the process of ecological niche evolution and diversification helps us better understand ecology, biogeography, and biodiversity. It first considers how species respond to changes in the environmental substrate on which the niches are manifested before discussing...

... initiated in 1988, it got the approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1996. The federal and local governments have funded the plan and enabled officials to acquire large tracts of biologically valuable land. It has, however, been observed that the plan is not going to conserve the biodiversity...

... the best results overall. But limitations imposed by the complexity of collecting and processing this data type limit its application at present. Biodiversity Ecology Gene genetics Henry John Accuracy of expert taxonomic identification Nomenclature taxonomic Species Taxonomy Computer Machine...