Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook

by Anne Becher

Overview

Current threats to biodiversity, extinction of species, and major changes in human behavior that experts think are needed to conserve existing biodiversity are all addressed. Successful examples of biodiversity conservation provide a hopeful conclusion for the book. Filled with data, anecdotes, and examples, Biodiversity will capture the interest of a variety of readers from students to scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874369236
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/01/1998
Series:	Contemporary World Issues
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Anne Becher,University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, is an accomplished writer specializing in environmental matters. She is the author of ABC-CLIO's American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present.

Editorial Reviews

Highly recommended for high school, academic, and public libraries.” —Library Jourbanal

From the Publisher

Biological diversity, or biodiversity for short, is a hot topic. Early in this decade, only a handful of books on the subject were available; since the mid-1990s, however, as interest in such topics as global warming, rainforest destruction, and endangered species has increased, several hundred have been published. Becher (The New Key to Costa Rica, Ulysses, 1996. 13th ed.) has done an exceptionally good job of collecting, organizing, and describing the subject and its resources. The first 50 pages comprise a comprehensive overview, including definitions, history, and discussions of the importance of biodiversity, threats to maintaining it, and conservation efforts. Other chapters provide a chronology, biographical sketches, statistics and documents, a directory of organizations (including web-site addresses when available), print resources, nonprint resources, and a glossary. Each item receives a lengthy annotation. The table of contents is detailed and eminently useful and the index thorough. One would have a hard time finding a better reference guide to an individual subject. Highly recommended for high school, academic, and public libraries.--Lynn C. Badger, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville

Library Journal

Explores the multiple issues surrounding biological diversity with an overview, a chronology, biographical sketches, statistics, documents, a directly of organizations along with their web sites, a glossary without pronunciation guides, and a listing of print and electronic sources of information. Suitable for secondary students, non-specialist journalists, and general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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