Agriculture and Biodiversity: Production with Sustainability

Agriculture and Biodiversity

Sustainability and Biodiversity

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA James Heffernan, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, and Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Elizabeth King, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, and University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA Patricia Balvanera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morel...

Biodiversity and Regional Sustainability Analysis

Evaluating sustainability at a regional level requires some assessment of the degree to which conservation and production criteria are integrated so as to provide high present and future net benefits to society. This assessment cannot be achieved simply by using indices based on comparisons for the individual criteria of observed indicator values with standards; not only may objective standards...

Finding agriculture among biodiversity

The breadth of biodiversity literature available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is potentially of great use to agricultural research. It provides access to literature drawn from across the world, and its archives document the Earth as it was one hundred years ago and more. However, this strength of BHL is also its weakness: the breadth of coverage of BHL can complicate finding ...

Marine biodiversity and fishery sustainability.

Marine fish is one of the most important sources of animal protein for human use, especially in developing countries with coastlines. Marine fishery is also an important industry in many countries. Fifty years ago, many people believed that the ocean was so vast and so resilient that there was no way the marine environment could be changed, nor could marine fishery resources be depleted. Half a...