Global Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century

by Brian Groombridge and United Nations Environment Programme

The 1990s seen a remarkable increase in appreciation of the links between the state of ecosystems and the state of humankind. This publication explores the key global issues of biodiversity. It examines the relationships between humankind and biodiversity, covering salient features of human impacts on the environment from the earliest hominines onward, and the uses currently made of elements of biodiversity. The text looks at the trends in condition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899628150
• ISBN13: 9781899628155
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme
• Length: 254 Pages