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From assessing to conserving biodiversity :conceptual and practical challenges

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This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so?
The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that “thing” to which the word ‘biodiversity’ refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.

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Reihentitel

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Signatur

333.9516 FRO f

Verlag

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Open., 2019

Umfang

xiv, 452p. : ill.

Sprache

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030109912

Klassifikation

333.9516

Inhaltstyp

text

Medientyp

computer

Datenträgertyp

online resource

Ausgabe

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Schlagwörter

Biodiversity
Animals

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Mitarbeiter

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