Author: Dēmētrios G. Phoitos
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9789609407120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bertrand de Montmollin
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9782831708324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The flora of the Mediterranean islands includes many rare and localized species unique to the islands. Some of these are particularly threatened with extinction due to various pressures caused by people and their activities in Mediterranean ecosystems. It includes 50 descriptive sheets of species which are especially threatened, based on the IUCN Red List criteria. Each sheet gives a description of the species with illustrations and maps, emphasizing the threats to the species, existing conservation measures and additional measures needed for their conservation. Aimed at the layman, the text is easily accessible to the non-botanist.
Author: Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2012-10-31
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9535108247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can hardly be overemphasized in today’s academic and professional arena. More professionals and academics have been using GIS than ever – urban
Author: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 934
ISBN-13: 9782831703282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book represents the most comprehensive compilation of data on threatened vascular plants ever published. It includes the names of some 33,000 plant species determined to be rare or threatened on a global scale. Conservation assessments were provided by the IUCN Species Survival Commission, the National Botanical Institute (South Africa), Environment Australia, and CSIRO, The Nature Conservancy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, together with hundreds of botanic gardens and botanists throughout the world. The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and the New York Botanical Garden have made major in-kind contributions.The result of 20 years work by botanists and conservationists around the world, it is intended as a conservation tool, a provider of baseline information to measure conservation progress and as a primary source of data on plant species. Most importantly, however, it provides the building blocks on which to base a worldwide effort to conserve plant species.
Author: Hugh Synge
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9782880322021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Information on 250 selected plants on a world scale.
Author: T. Pullaiah
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2021-03-18
Total Pages: 1836
ISBN-13: 0429783213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new four-volume set, Global Biodiversity, provides a wealth of insightful information on the biodiversity of selected nations around the world. The volumes provide informative summaries of the available data on both wild and cultivated plants, wild and domesticated animals, and microbes of the different nations selected.
Author: Ulf Gärdenfors
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9782831703350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN Red List category system.
Author: Marius-Nicusor Grigore
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2021-05-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783030576349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highlights the potential of biosaline agriculture in a changing environment Covers all important topics related to halophyte biology including biochemistry, genetics and genomics Provides information on potential use of halophytes Each topic is explained in detail and examined from various angles More than 100 contributions by international experts
Author: Piermaria Corona
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9401706492
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Forests represent a remnant wilderness of high recreational value in the densely populated industrial societies, a threatened natural resource in some regions of the world and a renewable reservoir of essential raw materials for the wood processing industry. In June 1992 the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro initiated a world-wide process of negotiation with the aim of ensuring sustainable management, conservation and development of forest resources. Although there seems to be unanimous support for sustainable development from all quarters, there is no generally accepted set of indicators which allows comparisons to be made between a given situation and a desirable one. In a recent summary paper prepared by the FAO Forestry and Planning Division, Ljungman et al. (1999) find that forest resources continue to diminish, while being called upon to produce a greater range of goods and services and that calls for sustainable forest management will simply go unheeded if the legal, policy and administrative environment do not effectively control undesirable practices. Does the concept of sustainable forest management represent not much more than a magic formula for achieving consensus, a vague idea which makes it difficult to match action to rhetoric? The concept of sustainable forest management is likely to remain an imprecise one, but we can contribute to avoiding management practices that are clearly unsustainable.