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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Global Biodiversity Governance : Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems
Global Biodiversity Governance : Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems
Biological diversity, or biodiversity, has been defined as the total variety of all ecosystems and species in the world, including the genetic variation within species. Biodiversity links all organisms on Earth in interdependent ecosystems in which all species have their roles. All life, including human life, depends on this diversity for food, medicines, building materials, water and air purification, climate stabilization, and pollination of food plants, as well as for its contribution to recreation and aesthetics. These benefits are known collectively as the ecosystem services. The Earth’s biodiversity has declined by more than a quarter in the past generation and continues to decline rapidly, primarily as the ...
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