Book ID: 95044
Kontoleon, Andreas, Unai Pascual and Timothy Swanson (Eds.)
Biodiversity Economics. Principles, Methods and Applications. 2007. 6 b/w figs. 67 line diagr. 692 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Human induced biodiversity loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than solutions to biodiversity loss by combining the disciplines of economics, ecology and biology. This field has shown a remarkable degree of transformation over the past four decades and now incorporates the analysis of the entire diversity of biological resources within the living world. Biodiversity Economics presents a series of papers that show how bio-economic analysis state-of-the-art bio-economic research by some of the issues in the academic, policy and private sectors.