Perspectives on Biodiversity
Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World
Seiten
1999
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-06581-8 (ISBN)
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-06581-8 (ISBN)
Reviews the understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. This book recommends and details a list of components - including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, and more.
Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect.
Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components—including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity.
The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Executive Summary
1: Introduction
2: What is Biodiversity?
3: The Values of Biodiversity
4: Different Ways of Thinking About Value
5: Economic Methods of Valuation
6: Management and Decision-Making
7: Broadening the Biodiversity Manager's Perspective
A: Statement of Task
B: Biographical Sketches
C: Acknowledgments
Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect.
Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components—including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity.
The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Executive Summary
1: Introduction
2: What is Biodiversity?
3: The Values of Biodiversity
4: Different Ways of Thinking About Value
5: Economic Methods of Valuation
6: Management and Decision-Making
7: Broadening the Biodiversity Manager's Perspective
A: Statement of Task
B: Biographical Sketches
C: Acknowledgments
Committee on Noneconomic and Economic Value of Biodiversity, National Research Council
1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1: Introduction; 4 2: What is Biodiversity?; 5 3: The Values of Biodiversity; 6 4: Different Ways of Thinking About Value; 7 5: Economic Methods of Valuation; 8 6: Management and Decision-Making; 9 7: Broadening the Biodiversity Manager's Perspective; 10 A: Statement of Task; 11 B: Biographical Sketches; 12 C: Acknowledgments
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Washington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| ISBN-10 | 0-309-06581-X / 030906581X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-309-06581-8 / 9780309065818 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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