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Principles of conservation biology
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Ecological Economics 11 (1994) 255-256
Recent Books
PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.
Gary K. Meffe and C.R. Carroll, and contributors. 1994, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA, 600 pp.
The "calamitous decline of biological diversity" helped provide the impetus for this - only the second, and more advanced - text concerned with the rapidly developing field of conservation biology. The book is divided into four parts, covering (I) the philosophical, ethical, and biological foundation by which the discipline hopes to be guided; (II) population issues: examined first at the genetic level and then broader issues of demographic process, including population dynamics, mechanisms of population regulation, and integrated population/landscape level conservation; (III) system-wide issues, including species interaction, community level influences on conservation strategies, and moving up to global problems; and (IV) the practical applications and human concerns in conservation biology - both theory and practice and case studies. Contributing chapter authors (including J. Baird Callicott, Richard Norgaard, and Stephen Viederman) are joined by 50 contributing authors (including Robert Costanza and Herman Daly) who provide shorter essays in their area of expertise. Though the field is rapidly evolving (to keep pace with the growing concern over the steady pace of bio-diversity loss), this volume offers a thorough foundation in basic principles and is an excellent source book for leading practitioners in the field, as well as references that the serious student will want to pursue, Elsevier Science B.V.
THE E N V I R O N M E N T A L E F F E C T S OF TRADE. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1994, Paris, 206 pp.
A compilation of background documents provided by the Joint Session of Trade and Environment Experts (convened and created by the Environment Policy Committee and Trade Committee of OECD) that have analyzed trade and environment issues in order to develop recommendations for increasing the mutual compatibility of trade and environmental policies and warding off conflicts before they arise. The volume includes sectoral studies of the environmental effects of trade in agriculture (C. Ford Runge), forestry (E. Barbier), fisheries (S. Sen), endangered species (J. Burgess), and transportation (H. Gabel). The synthesis report concludes that, in general, trade is not the root cause of environmental problems; these problems are due to market and intervention failures. An analytical framework for examining the effects of trade in each sector in terms of product, scale, structure, and regulatory effects is identified. Three annexes complete the text: (1) the OECD procedural guidelines on trade and the environment (June, 1993); (2) the 1972 OECD guiding principles; and (3)harmonization of environmental policies (an overview). Clive Hamilton. 1994. Willow Park Press, Fyshwick, Australia, 203 PP" THE M Y S T I C ECONOMIST.
The author is "up front" about the objective of this provocatively titled work: articulating the dire
Ecological Economics 11 (1994) 255-256
Recent Books
PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.
Gary K. Meffe and C.R. Carroll, and contributors. 1994, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA, 600 pp.
The "calamitous decline of biological diversity" helped provide the impetus for this - only the second, and more advanced - text concerned with the rapidly developing field of conservation biology. The book is divided into four parts, covering (I) the philosophical, ethical, and biological foundation by which the discipline hopes to be guided; (II) population issues: examined first at the genetic level and then broader issues of demographic process, including population dynamics, mechanisms of population regulation, and integrated population/landscape level conservation; (III) system-wide issues, including species interaction, community level influences on conservation strategies, and moving up to global problems; and (IV) the practical applications and human concerns in conservation biology - both theory and practice and case studies. Contributing chapter authors (including J. Baird Callicott, Richard Norgaard, and Stephen Viederman) are joined by 50 contributing authors (including Robert Costanza and Herman Daly) who provide shorter essays in their area of expertise. Though the field is rapidly evolving (to keep pace with the growing concern over the steady pace of bio-diversity loss), this volume offers a thorough foundation in basic principles and is an excellent source book for leading practitioners in the field, as well as references that the serious student will want to pursue, Elsevier Science B.V.
THE E N V I R O N M E N T A L E F F E C T S OF TRADE. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1994, Paris, 206 pp.
A compilation of background documents provided by the Joint Session of Trade and Environment Experts (convened and created by the Environment Policy Committee and Trade Committee of OECD) that have analyzed trade and environment issues in order to develop recommendations for increasing the mutual compatibility of trade and environmental policies and warding off conflicts before they arise. The volume includes sectoral studies of the environmental effects of trade in agriculture (C. Ford Runge), forestry (E. Barbier), fisheries (S. Sen), endangered species (J. Burgess), and transportation (H. Gabel). The synthesis report concludes that, in general, trade is not the root cause of environmental problems; these problems are due to market and intervention failures. An analytical framework for examining the effects of trade in each sector in terms of product, scale, structure, and regulatory effects is identified. Three annexes complete the text: (1) the OECD procedural guidelines on trade and the environment (June, 1993); (2) the 1972 OECD guiding principles; and (3)harmonization of environmental policies (an overview). Clive Hamilton. 1994. Willow Park Press, Fyshwick, Australia, 203 PP" THE M Y S T I C ECONOMIST.
The author is "up front" about the objective of this provocatively titled work: articulating the dire