Biodiversity
By: Noah Berlatsky, book editor
Series: Global viewpoints; Global viewpoints
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780737769043; 9780737769050
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Description: The Global Viewpoints series provides students and other readers with the information they need to explore global connections and think critically about the worldwide implications of global issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Biodiversity and economic development. Business must be given a role in promoting biodiversity / James Griffiths; title: Biodiversity could be casualty of Myanmar openness / Denis D. Gray; title: Development and political conflict threaten Palestine's plant biodiversity / Roubina Basous Ghattas; title: The development of tourism is destroying biodiversity on the Galápagos Islands / Carole Cadwalladr; title: ch. 2. Biodiversity and wildlife. In Africa, locals must be involved in balancing hunting and biodiversity / Kate Lee; title: In Canada, deer overpopulation threatens biodiversity / Peter Arcese and Tara Martin; title: In Iraq, water scarcity and dam building threaten migratory birds / Environment News Service; title: In Japan, invasive fish species threaten biodiversity / Mizuho Aoki; title: In Taiwan, overfishing threatens marine biodiversity and is not sustainable / Kwang-Tsao Shao; title: In Antarctica, fishing fleets threaten albatross species / Becky Allen; title: ch. 3. Biodiversity and agriculture. Biodiversity can help agriculture adapt to climate change / Janet Cotter and Reyes Tirado; title: Widespread local extinctions in tropical forest "remnants" / Space Daily; title: In India, honey harvesting is threatened by dwindling biodiversity / Simone Gie; title: Banking against doomsday / Economist; title: ch. 4. Biodiversity and climate change. Climate change is reducing biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean / William Marsden; title: Threats loom for Australia's outback biodiversity / Targeted News Service; title: Climate change threatens Jamaica's biodiversity / Zadie Neufville; title: International programs can help Indonesia fight climate change and biodiversity loss / Celia A. Harvey, Jonah Busch, and Muhammad Farid; title: Biodiversity loss is as much of an ecological threat as climate change / National Science Foundation.