Nature and human society
Subtitle: the quest for a sustainable world : proceedings of the 1997 Forum on Biodiversity
By: Board on Biology, National Research Council ; Peter H. Raven, editor ; Tania Williams, associate editor.
Contributors: Raven, Peter H.; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Biology.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
Subjects: Biodiversity -- Congresses; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Congresses; Sustainable development -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Defining biodiversity -- -- pt. 2.; title: Less well-known individual forms of life -- -- pt. 3.; title: Role of the group in biodiversity -- -- pt. 4.; title: Means to measure biodiversity -- -- pt. 5.; title: Threats to sustainability -- -- pt. 6.; title: Infrastructure for sustaining biodiversity: science -- -- pt. 7.; title: Infrastructure for sustaining biodiversity: society -- -- pt. 8.; title: Infrastructure for sustaining biodiversity: policy -- -- ch. 9.; title: Examples of sustainability.