Issues in Environmental Science and Technology

Biodiversity Under Threat

Ron E Hester (Editor), R M Harrison (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-85404-251-7
Copyright: 2007
Format: Hardback
Extent: 290
Price:  £49.95

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Synopsis

There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices and climate change, are all having a direct impact on biodiversity.

In this book the Editors provide a broad view of the many pressures imposed by human-induced changes and the many threats to global biodiversity and of the policy responses required to combat them.
This excellent text includes the work of some 44 authors and offers a solid description of the current understanding of threats to biodiversity with a range of illustrative examples - a valuable point of reference for ecologists, environmental scientists, and students as well as, policymakers and all other environmental professionals.

Reviews

The present book provides a very valuable introduction into environmental science and technology in general, and biodiversity in particular, for those who are not specialists in this area. This is a timely, thoughtful and authoritative account of the current state of play on the ecological battlefront.
Source : Chemistry World, January 2008, 64 (Dennis Rouvray)