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9780643104075: Land Use Intensification: Effects on Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecological Processes
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ISBN 10 : 0643104070 ISBN 13 : 9780643104075
Editeur : CSIRO Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

There can be little doubt that there are truly colossal challenges associated with providing food, fibre and energy for an expanding world population without further accelerating already rapid rates of biodiversity loss and undermining the ecosystem processes on which we all depend. These challenges are further complicated by rapid changes in climate and its additional direct impacts on agriculture, biodiversity and ecological processes. There are many different viewpoints about the best way to deal with the myriad issues associated with land use intensification and this book canvasses a number of these from different parts of the tropical and temperate world. Chapters focus on whether science can suggest new and improved approaches to reducing the conflict between productive land use and biodiversity conservation. Who should read this book? Policy makers in regional, state and federal governments, as well as scientists and the interested lay public.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

By 2050, the global population of humans is predicted to increase by 35 percent. Approximately 70 percent more food may be required, and this will take place against a backdrop of 15-40 percent land degradation. This book examines land use intensification and biodiversity conservation and its impacts. It also discusses whether suites of species, and/or functional groups of taxa will either benefit or suffer from land use intensification and whether it is possible to make robust predictions of biotic responses across landscapes, regions, and continents.

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Éditeur
CSIRO Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0643104070
ISBN 13 
9780643104075
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Éditeur
Lindenmayer David, Cunningham Saul, Young Andrew
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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