Human Exploitation and Biodiversity Conservation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hawksworth, David L. (Editor), Bull, Alan T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation ; 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Applied ecology.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Landscape ecology.; Plant ecology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Landscape Ecology.; Applied Ecology.

The sustainable use of biodiversity is one of the three key objectives of the 1992 "Convention on Biological Diversity". To achieve this, sound conservation practice has to be recognized as beneficial and implemented by all who access, or use it – from subsistence farmers to skiers and pha...