Human Population, Biodiversity and Protected Areas

Description

Editor: Dompka, Victoria

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Pub Date: 1996

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Highlighting and marginalia through about the first half of the book.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: New Flash!  Increasing human population and increasing rates of natural resource consumption are putting pressure on biodiversity and protected areas all over Earth.  This meeting in 1995, sponsored by the United Nations, defined protected areas as scientific and nature reserves, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, protected landscapes, wilderness areas, biosphere reserves and conservation sites.  This “global” conference examined areas in India, Indonesia, Kenya, Ecuador, Columbia, and the U.S., with the goal “…to achieve sustainable management of natural resources.” (Page 2)  “And at the root of all environmental difficulties, excessive population growth has to be reined in.  Either that, or all efforts in conservation and sustainable bioeconomics will eventually fail.  Every country needs a population policy pivoted on its concept of optimum population size into which the preservation of its biological wealth has been carefully calculated.”  (E. O. Wilson, Biodiversity, National Academy Press, 1988).  VERY RARE.  No other copies available for sale.  From the library of the late environmentalist Dave Foreman.