Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging StrategiesLakshman D. Guruswamy, Jeffrey A. McNeely Duke University Press, 1998 - 425 pages The rate of extinction of biological species is greater today than at any time in the last 65 million years. Some predict that if this rate continues, two-thirds of all living species will disappear during the next century. Because reaching consensus on specific courses of action involves complex issues, any adequate response to this impending crisis must include coverage of many areas of inquiry and understanding. Protection of Global Biodiversity features essays by distinguished international experts who communicate with each other across disciplinary boundaries to address the challenge of formulating policies to protect biodiversity. Although the global community has recently adopted a Convention of Biological Diversity, the agreement sets forth only abstract goals. Contributors to this volume advance the Convention's initial steps by providing workable solutions that can be implemented regionally, nationally, and locally. The contributors--including natural, social, and political scientists; economists; lawyers; and environmentalists; and decisionmakers in business, agriculture, and government--have united to create a common discourse and to evaluate and propose strategies for halting this alarming loss of biodiversity. In recognizing the diverse aspects of this task--scientific, economic, institutional, moral, and legal--this book presents a new picture of emerging action. Contributors. S. James Anaya, Gregory Benford, Graciela Chichilnisky, S. Todd Crider, Yvonne Cripps, Robert T. Fraley, Anil K. Gupta, Lakshman D. Guruswamy, G. M. Heal, Brent Hendricks, Robert B. Horsch, Laura L. Jackson, Annie Lovejoy, Ariel E. Lugo, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Brian G. Norton, Elinor Ostrom, Peter H. Raven, John W. Reid, Walter V. Reid, Mark Sagoff, Roger A. Sedgo, R. David Simpson, Ana Sittenfeld, Christopher D. Stone, Gary H. Toenniessen |
Contents
Its Scope and Meaning for | 13 |
The Middle of the Road Ariel E Lugo | 33 |
Biotechnology Can Help Reduce the Loss of Biodiversity | 49 |
Agricultural Industrialization and the Loss of Biodiversity Laura L Jackson | 66 |
An Ex Situ Library of Life Strategy Gregory Benford | 87 |
Sustainable Development and NorthSouth Trade | 101 |
Markets and Biodiversity Geoffrey M Heal | 129 |
Designing Complexity | 149 |
History Values and Policy | 247 |
On the Uses of Biodiversity Mark Sagoff | 265 |
The Earths Biological | 287 |
Some | 316 |
Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights | 331 |
A Polemic | 351 |
How to Save the Biodiversity of Planet Earth | 376 |
Appendix | 393 |
International Institutional Measures | 168 |
Strategies for Utilizing | 190 |
Convergence of Interests S James Anaya and S Todd Crider | 223 |
Contributors | 415 |
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