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 ProjectsBiodiversity: Books and PublicationsAttenborough, David. 1979. Life on Earth. A Natural History. Little, Brown &
Co., Boston, MA, 319 pages.
Attenborough, David. 1984. The Living Planet. A Portrait of the Earth. Little,
Brown & Co., Boston, MA, 320 pages.
Attenborough, David. 1998. The Life of Birds. Princeton University Press,
Princeton, NJ, 320 pages. (Extensive discussion of various endangered
species, including island endemics.)
Ayensu, Edward S., Vernon H. Heywood, Grenville L. Lucas and Robert A.
Defilipps. 1984. Our Green and Living World. The Wisdom to Save It.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 255 pages.
Baskin, Yvonne. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. 1997. The
Work of Nature. How Diversity of Life Sustains Us. Island Press, Washington,
DC, 282 pages.
Birdlife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions,
Barcelona, Spain.
Bishop, James, Jr. 1995. Mixing Birds and Business. Nature Conservancy
(magazine of The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA), Jan./Feb. (ecotourism,
local businesses and bird preservation).
Cohen, Joel E. 1995. How Many People Can the Earth Support? W.W. Norton & Co.,
New York, 532 pages.
Cracraft, Joel. 2001. Gondwana Genesis. Natural History, Dec./Jan., Vol. 110, No. 10, pages 64-73.
Daily, Gretchen C. (eds.). 1997. Nature's Services. Societal Dependence on
Natural Ecosystems. Island Press, Washington, DC, 412 pages.
Darwin, Charles. 1858. The Origin of Species or the Preservation of Favoured
Races in the Struggle for Life. Various editions available.
Dobson, A.P. 1996. Conservation and Biodiversity. Scientific American Library,
New York, 264 pages.
Ecotourism Society. Ecotourism: A Guide for Planners and Managers. (P.O. Box
755, North Bennington, VT 05257; Tel.: 802-447-2121).
Ehrenfeld, D.W. 1972. Conserving Life on Earth. Oxford University Press,
New York.
Fiedler, Peggy L. and Peter M. Kareiva (eds.). 1997. Conservation Biology For
the Coming Decade. Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 2nd edition, 533 pages.
Gillis, M. 1986. Non-Wood Forest Products in Indonesia. Department of
Forestry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Goddard, Donald (ed.). 1995. Saving Wildlife. A Century of Conservation. The
Wildlife Conservation Society. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and The Wildlife
Conservation Society, New York, 286 pages.
Grove, Noel. 1992. Preserving Eden. The Nature Conservancy. Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., Publishers, New York, 176 pages.
Gustanski, Julie Ann and Roderick H. Squires. 2000. Protecting the Land.
Conservation Easements Past, Present, and Future. Island Press, Washington,
DC, 450 pages.
Hanson, Jeanne K. and Deane Morrison. 1992. Of Kinkajous, Capybaras, Horned
Beetles, Seldangs, and the Oddest and Most Wonderful Mammals, Insects, Birds
and Plants of Our World. Harper Perennial, Division of Harper Collins,
Publisher, New York, 285 pages.
Hardin, Garrett. 1993. Living Within Limits. Ecology, Economics, and
Population Taboos. Oxford University Press, New York, 339 pages.
Hoose, P.M. 1981. Building an Ark: Tools for the Preservation of Natural
Diversity Through Land Protection. Island Press, Covelo, CA, 212 pages.
Howes, Chris. 1997. The Spice of Life. Biodiversity and the Extinction Crisis.
Blandford, A Cassell Imprint, London, UK, 192 pages.
Huston, M.A. 1994. Biological Diversity: The Coexistence of Species on
Changing Landscapes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Karliner, Joshua. 1997. The Corporate Planet. Ecology and Politics in the Age
of Globalization. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 298 pages.
Leakey, Richard and Roger Lewin. 1995. The Sixth Extinction. Patterns of Life
and the Future of Humankind. Doubleday, New York, 271 pages.
Laurance, W.F. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr. (eds.). 1997. Tropical Forest
Remnants. Ecology, Management and Conservation of Fragmented Communities.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
Lovejoy, T.E., J.M. Rankin, R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., K.S. Brown, Jr., L.H.
Emmons and M.E. Van der Voort. 1984. Ecosystem Decay of Amazon Forest
Remnants. In: Extinctions. Ed. by M.H. Nitecki. University Chicago Press,
Chicago, IL.
McNeely, Jeffrey, Kenton R. Miller, Walter V. Reid, Russell A. Mittermeier,
and Timothy B. Werner. 1990. Conserving the World's Biological Diversity.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature, World Resources
Institute, WWF, Gland, Switzerland.
McNeill, J.R. 2000. Something New Under the Sun. An Environmental History of
the Twentieth-Century World. W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 421 pages.
Meyers, Norman. 1983. A Wealth of Wild Species. Storehouse for Human Welfare. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 272 pages.
Miller, K.R. 1980. Planning National Parks for Ecodevelopment. University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Mittermeier, Russell, Norman Myers, Patricio Robles Gil and Cristina Goettsch
Mittermeier (eds.). 1999. Hotspots. Earth's Biologically Richest and Most
Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions. Foreword by Harrison Ford. Cemex, S.A.,
Mexico City, Conservation International, 431 pages.
Munn, Charles A. 1992. Macaw Biology and Ecotourism or "When a Bird in the
Bush is Worth Two in the Hand." In: New World Parrots in Crisis. Ed. by
S.R. Beissinger and N.F.R. Snyder, Smithsonian Institution Press,
Washington, DC, pages 47-72.
National Geographic Society. 1989. Nature's Wonderlands. National Parks of
the World. Washington, DC, 304 pages.
National Geographic Society. 1995. Animal Kingdoms. Wildlife Sanctuaries of
the World. Washington, DC, 200 pages.
National Geographic Society. 1997. Earth Almanac National Geographic, May.
Norris, Ruth. 1994. Paying for Parks--Funding Mechanisms for Protected
Areas. International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland,
Switzerland.
Noss, Reed F. and Allen Y. Cooperrider. 1994. Saving Nature's Legacy.
Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. Island Press, Washington, DC, 443
pages.
Novacek, Michael J. (ed.). 2001. The Biodiversity Crisis. Losing What Counts.
An American Museum of Natural History Book, The New Press, New York, 224
pages.
Nowak, Ronald M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Vols. I and II. Johns
Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Ponting, Clive. 1991. A Green History of the World. The Environment and the
Collapse of Great Civilizations. Penguin Books, New York, 432 pages. (How
civilizations have died out after they destroyed their environments.)
Peters, C.M., A.H. Gentry and R.O. Mendelsohn. 1989. Economic valuation
of an Amazonian rainforest. Nature, 339:655-656.
Peters, R.L. and T.E. Lovejoy. 1992. Global Warming and Biological Diversity.
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Pickett, Steward, Richard S. Ostfeld, Moshe Shachak and Gene E. Likens
(eds.). 1997. The Ecological Basis of Conservation. Heterogeneity,
Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 432 pages.
Prance, G.T. (ed.). 1982. Biological Diversification in the Tropics.
Columbia University Press, New York.
Proctor, Michael, Peter Yeo and Andrew Lack. 1996. The Natural History of
Pollination. Timber Press, Portland, OR, 479 pages.
Rich, Bruce. 1994. Mortgaging the Earth. The World Bank, Environmental
Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development. Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 376
pages.
Soulé, M.E., and B.A. Wilcox (eds.). 1980. Conservation Biology: An
Evolutionary-Ecological Approach. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 395
pages.
Soulé, Michael E. (ed.). 1986. Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity
and Diversity. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
Terborgh, John. 1999. Requiem for Nature. Island Press, Shearwater Books,
Washington, DC, 234 pages. (Examines Manu National Park, Peru, and others as
examples of the failure of present land protection programs to preserve
biodiversity, and proposes alternative solutions.)
Turner, B.L. II, William C. Clark, Robert W. Kates, John F. Richards, Jessica
T. Mathews and William B. Meyer (eds.). 1990. The Earth as Transformed by
Human Action. Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300
Years. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 713 pages.
Wilson, Edward O. (ed.). 1988. Biodiversity. National Academy Press,
Washington, DC, 521 pages.
Wilson, Edward O. 1992. The Diversity of Life. W.W. Norton & Co., New
York, 424 pages.
Wilson, Edward O. and Dan L. Perlman. 1999. Conserving Earth's Biodiversity.
Island Press, Covelo, CA. (Interactive CD-ROM that teaches conservation
biology and environmental science; teachers may view demo at
www.Islandpress.org/wilsoncd/ and register for an examination copy.)
Wolf, Edward C. 1987. On the Brink of Extinction: Conserving the Diversity
of Life. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC.
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