What makes our planet's natural treasures worth saving, and why should we care? With hundreds of stunning full-color photographs and more than twenty essays from some of the world's most respected scientists, this latest publication in the CEMEX Conservation Book Series aims to provide some of these answers. With scientific analyses, The Wealth of Nature offers a detailed explanation of the various ecosystem services that support and regulate all natural processes on Earth. It also provides cultural context for how these services are vital for our existence and why their futures—and ours—are at risk. The Wealth of Nature maps out the state of our global resources and clarifies the choices that lay before us. It is within our grasp to adapt to the conditions we have created and to mitigate our impact on the future, but the window of opportunity is closing. Take a moment and come and see the award-winning nature photographers capture Earth's intricate web of life and the solutions we are working toward.

The Wealth of Nature: Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, and Human Well-Being (Cemex Conservation Book Series)

Science & Math

Mittermeier, Russell A.

McNeely, Jeffrey A.

Ash, Neville

Brooks, Thomas M.

Boltz, Frederick

Earth Sciences

World Conservation Union

Book by Carew-Reid, Jeremy, Prescott-Allen, Robert, Bass, Stephen, Dalal-Clayton, Barry

Strategies for national sustainable development: A handbook for their planning and implementation

Business & Money

Bass, Stephen

Dalal-Clayton, Barry

Prescott-Allen, Robert

Carew-Reid, Jeremy

Economics

Strategies for Sustainability: Latin America (Sustainable Development Set)

IUCN- The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948 The World Conservation Union brings together States government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources to equitable and ecological sustainable. The World Conservation Union builds on the strengths of its members, Networks and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural resources at local, regional and global levels. The Strategies For Sustainability Programme. The Strategies For Sustainably Program of IUCN works to strengthen strategic planning, policy and implementation skills aimed at sustainability development at global, national and local levels. Working with networks of strategy practitioners from member governments, partner institutions and NGOs the programme assists in the conceptual development and analysis of experience of strategies, the development of a range of strategic planning and action planning skills and improved methods of assessing human and ecosystem well being. Originally published in 1996

Strategies for sustainability: Latin America (Strategies for Sustainable Development Series)

Reference

(ICUN. Earthscan) Examines the international agreements relevant to the arguments about biodiversity and intellectual property rights. Provides a full-scale account of how to integrate the requirements of the CBD into an equitable global IPR regime.

Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Biodiversity: Seeds And Plant Varieties

DUTFIELD, GRAHAM

This is a book for everybody from national leaders and the heads of industry to individual citizens. Fully illustrated in color with photographs from around the world, this strategy offers the reader a practical guide to the principles and actions on which the future of our societies depends.The first part explains the issues of conservation and of social and economic development. The second looks more deeply into the problems of human activity and the environment; each chapter deals with one area ? such as forests, oceans, farm and range lands, and industry and commerce ? and ends with a series of priority actions that summarize needs and point the way to the future. The final part of the book looks at the implementation of the proposed strategies, and gives further, more detailed plans. Armed with this book ? a popular adaptation of Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living ? readers can consider their personal behavior and lifestyles in the light of the actions proposed, and assess the policies and practices of the communities, groups and nations to which they belong.

Caring for the Earth: A Strategy For Survival

Few, Roger

Sports & Outdoors

Oil Exploration in the Tropics: Guidelines for Environmental Protection (Oil Exploration Guidelines)

IUCN--The World Conservation Union

Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and Its Islands: Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Use (Occasional Papers of Hte Iucn Species Survival Com)

Biological Sciences

Legal Aspects of the Conservation of Wetlands: "Papers Presented At An International Conference Held In Lyon, France" (Iucn Environmental Policy and Law Paper)

History

Untermaier, Jean

Europe

Protected areas of the world: A review of national systems, v.1. Indomalaya, Oceania, Australia and Antarctic (Volume 1)

This four volume directory was published for the IVth World Parks Congress held in Caracas, Venezuela, in February 1992, by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) and IUCN in cooperation with the British Petroleum Company p.l.c. This is the first time a world-wide survey of protected area systems has been compiled by WCMC. It is organized into national accounts, each comprising a description of the national protected areas system, accompanied by a summary list and map of protected areas. The directory aims to provide extensive background information on the protected area systems of the world, and to stimulate the continual process of review and update of information on protected areas.

Protected Areas of the World: Vol. 2 - Palearctic: A Review Of National Systems

WCMC

IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas

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