Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation: Prospects for Northern Mexico

conservation biology is a crisis discipline rooted in the realization that the world’s biodiversity is rapidly disappearing. Environmental problems (including loss of species and ecosystems) are mainly the result of explosive human population growth, with an ever-growing demand on natural resources...

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Published inBiodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation in Northern Mexico
Main Authors Cartron, Jean-Luc E., Ceballos, Gerardo, Felger, Richard S.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Oxford University Press 2005
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subjects
Applied ecology
Biodivsersity and Conservation Biology
Invertebrates
Plant Sciences and Forestry
functioning
enforced
Environmental
biology
framework
natural
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Summary:conservation biology is a crisis discipline rooted in the realization that the world’s biodiversity is rapidly disappearing. Environmental problems (including loss of species and ecosystems) are mainly the result of explosive human population growth, with an ever-growing demand on natural resources and a steady increase in waste products. Minimizing the negative effects of human activities on the envi-ronment requires a conservation-minded culture, an adequate legal framework that is implemented and enforced, properly trained professionals, and fund-ing. Just as important, minimizing environmental damage requires solid scientific information on the biodiversity and functioning of every ecosystem and on conservation threats at a local, regional, and global scale.
ISBN:9780195156720
0195156722
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780195156720.003.0001