From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity: Conceptual and Practical Challenges

by Casetta, Elena Marques da Silva, Jorge Vecchi, Davide

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Full title :From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity : Conceptual and Practical Challenges / edited by Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva, Davide Vecchi.

Summary

This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so? The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that "thing" to which the word 'biodiversity' refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint: Springer, Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:XIV, 452 p. 36 illus. :

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030109912, 3030109917
oclc:on1204013265
Dewey Decimal:570.1

Part I. Characterizing Biodiversity: Beyond the Species Approach -- Chapter 1. Beyond Biodiversity and Speciation - Disparity and Evolvability (Alessandro Minelli) -- Chapter 2. Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity? (Davide Vecchi, Rob Mills) -- Chapter 3. Between Explanans and Explanandum: Biodiversity and the Theoretical Unity of Ecology (Philippe Huneman) -- Chapter 4. Functional Biodiversity and the Idea that Organisms Fulfil Functional Roles within Ecological Units (Antoine C. Dussault) -- Chapter 5. The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity (Luís Borda de Agua) -- Part II. Estimating Biodiversity: Limitation and Challenges -- Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Research to Understand and to Correct the Impacts of Species Concepts and Ignored Cryptic Species on Biodiversity Assessments (Anne Chenuil) -- Chapter 7. Statistical Measures of Biological Diversity: A Unified Framework and Discussion (Vincenzo Crupi) -- Chapter 8. Measuring Biodiversity from Traits to Landscapes (Cristina Branquino) -- Part III. Representing Biodiversity: Cognitive Representation and Representation by Specimen -- Chapter 9. The Representations of Biodiversity (Anouk Barbero…

Subjects

Biodiversité Biodiversity Biologie -- Philosophie Biology -- Philosophy ecology Écosystèmes menacés ecosystems Endangered ecosystems Geoecology/Natural Processes PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY