Biodiversity, the Megascience in Focus
Subtitle: outcomes and recommendations of the COP8 Associated Meeting, and a statement of principles by Brazilian biodiversity scientists
By: organized by Associação Memoria Naturalis-AMNAT.
Contributors: Associação Memoria Naturalis.; Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Series: Série Livros -- 20
Publisher: Museu Nacional
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9788574270159
Subjects: Biodiversity -- Research -- Congresses; Biodiversity -- Brazil -- Congresses; Sustainable development -- Congresses; Bioethics -- Congresses; Biodiversidade; Desenvolvimento sustentável; Bioética
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Outcomes and recommendations of the COP8 Associated Meeting, and a statement of principles by Brazilian biodiversity scientists
Notes: This meeting was a prepatory event to the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD/COP-8) and was held in Curitiba, Brazil, on March 15-19th, 2006, with the support of the Brazilian Government and several scientific organizations. Its objective was to identify the challenges now facing biodiversity science and to outline a strategy to address them.

Text in English and Portuguese.
Table of contents: title: Letter of presentation; title: Outcomes and recommendations of the meeting on "Biodiversity The Megascience in Focus", Curitiba, 15-19 March 2006; title: Conclusões e recomendações do encontro : "Biodiversidade: a Megaciência em Foco", Curitiba, 15 a 19 de março de 2006; title: Guiding principles for the drafting of a pollicy for collections management, research, and dissemination of Brazilian biodiversity information; title: Princípios norteadores de políticas de gestão de acervo, pesquisa e disseminação de informação sobre a biodiversidade brasileira.