Managing Global Diversity in a Changing Environment

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Global Diversity: Managing and liveraging diversity in a global workforce. 3. Biodiversity target and beyond: AEWA’s contribution to Global Biodiversity governance. 4. Forecasting Global biodiversity threats associated with human population growth. 5. Global Governance of Biological Diversity. 6. Populations, ecosystems and global diversity. 7. The challenges and opportunities of cultural diversity. 8. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Maintaining natural life support processes. 9. Sustainability science ecology special feature. 10. Global Climate change: The Kyoto Protocol. 11. Global warming and climate change. 12. The Kyoto protocol and global warming. 13. Gender perspectives on the conventions on biodiversity, climate change and desertification. Bibliography. Index.

Today the most significant research strategies being used to study the impact of environment and global diversity are experiments and surveys. Researchers who study the effects of environment have used most of the techniques discussed in this book.(jacket)