Global Biodiversity Conservation Measures/T.I. Khan and Dhari N. Al-Ajmi. 1999, xx, 468 p., tables, figs, $59. ISBN 81-7132-202-6.
Contents: Preface. 1. Biodiversity: an overview/T.I. Khan and Dhari N. Al-Ajmi. 2. Economic aspects of conservation of global biodiversity/T.I. Khan. 3. The global importance of plant diversity/Paul Hatchwell and Stan Frost. 4. Plant biotechnology: a powerful tool to use plant resources and to improve the environmental impact of agriculture/J. Schell. 5. Agricultural biodiversity and the role of research and development in Kuwait/Samira Ahmad S. Omar. 6. Biodiversity in Aravalli Forest of Rajasthan/T.I. Khan. 7. Conserving biodiversity through traditional forest use: case studies from Nepal and Northern Thailand/Dietrich Schmidt Vogt. 8. Joint forest management as biodiversity conservation measures in Rajasthan/Vimlesh Chaudhary. 9. Measuring rural resource users' motivation for various conservation actions: implications for biodiversity conservation outside protected areas/Julia F. Carpenter. 10. Biodiversity conservation by indigenous communities at Karanambu Ranch, Rupununi Savannah, Guyana/Myra Shackley. 11. Biodiversity conservation in the Philippines/Teodora Bagarinao. 12. The Sanctuary movement in Australia/John Wamsley. 13. Restoration of desert ecosystems through wildlife management: The Saudi Arabian experience/Abdulaziz, H. Abuzinada. 14. Status of vegetation and an assessment of the impact of overgrazing in an Area North of Jubail, Saudi Arabia/Hans Jorg Barth. 15. Biodiversity in Indian wetlands: Keoladeo National Park/T.I. Khan and Sonia Raj. Select Bibliography. Appendices.
"This book contains chapters contributed by Scientists working in England, UK, United States of America, Germany, Kuwait, India, Saudi Arabia, Philippines etc. pertaining to measures taken for Biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources including terresterial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part, this includes diversity within species, between species and of Ecosystems. The distribution and magnitude of the Biodiversity that exists today is a product of over 3.5 billions years of evolution, involving speciation, migration, extinction and more recently human influences. The adverse effects of human impacts on Biodiversity are increasing dramatically and threatening the very foundation of sustainable development. Loss of Biodiversity resources and their diversity threatens our food supplies, sources of wood, medicine and energy opportunity for creations and tourism and interferes with essential ecological functions. The conservation and sustainable use of Biodiversity needs to become an integral component of economic development." (jacket)
[T.I. Khan is currently a Director of Indira Gandhi Centre for Human Ecology, Environmental and Population Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
Dhari N. Al-Ajmi is currently a Director of Environmental and Earth Sciences Division in Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Kuwait].