Loss of Biodiversity

This book introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the declining diversity of life on the planet. Contributions from scientists, and academics in the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial tool kit for understanding the concepts central to their disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of the loss of biodiversity.

About the Contributors

vii

Preface

ix

Introduction

xiii

Sharon L. Spray and Karen L. McGlothlin

1 LIFE LINES

3

(26)

A Geoscience Perspective on Historical Losses of Biodiversity

David H. Backus

2 A CHANGING BALANCE

29

(26)

An Ecological Perspective on the Loss of Biodiversity

J. Whitfield Gibbons and Karen L. McGlothlin

3 DIMINISHING SONGBIRDS

55

(20)

A Conservation Biology Case Study of Eastern Songbirds

David G. Haskell

4 VALUING NATURE

75

(24)

Ethical Perspectives on the Loss of Biodiversity

Ben A. Minteer

5 PRICING PROTECTION

99

(20)

Understanding the Environmental Economics of Biodiversity Protection

David A. Anderson

6 THE POLITICS OF BIODIVERSITY

119

(30)

A Political Case Study of the Endangered Species Act

Alan Balch and Daniel Press

7 THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE

149

(14)

Concluding Thoughts on the Loss of Biodiversity

Sharon L. Spray and Karen L. McGlothlin

Glossary

163

(12)

Index

175

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