Impacts Of Rapid Human Population Growth On Biodiversity

Author : B W Namano
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668058628
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Impacts of Rapid Human Population Growth on Biodiversity written by B W Namano and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: This publication will highlight some of these human activities and how they negatively affects Earth’s biodiversity. The data/information used in this publication is primarily secondary, drawn from several credible and reliable online sources. Aspects that this paper examines include human activities related to rapid population growth, agriculture, fishing, manufacturing and resource exploration, mining and urbanization.

Author : Bernard Namano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668058637
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Impacts of Rapid Human Population Growth on Biodiversity written by Bernard Namano and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: This publication will highlight some of these human activities and how they negatively affects Earth's biodiversity. The data/information used in this publication is primarily secondary, drawn from several credible and reliable online sources. Aspects that this paper examines include human activities related to rapid population growth, agriculture, fishing, manufacturing and resource exploration, mining and urbanization.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309046831
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Conserving Biodiversity written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where the conditions of human existence are most difficult. Conserving Biodiversity presents an agenda for research that can provide information to formulate policy and design conservation programs in the Third World. The book includes discussions of research needs in the biological sciences as well as economics and anthropology, areas of critical importance to conservation and sustainable development. Although specifically directed toward development agencies, non-governmental organizations, and decisionmakers in developing nations, this volume should be of interest to all who are involved in the conservation of biological diversity.

Author : Richard P. Cincotta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642167071
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Human Population written by Richard P. Cincotta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the dynamic patterns of human density and distribution are examined in relation to the viability of native species and the integrity of their habitats. Social, biological, and earth scientists describe their models, outline their conclusions from field studies, and review the contributions of other scientists whose work is essential to this field. The book starts with general theories and broad empirical relationships that help explain dramatic changes in the patterns of the occurrence of species, changes that have developed in parallel with human population growth, migration and settlement. In the following chapters specific biomes and ecosystems are highlighted as the context for human interactions with other species. A discussion of the key themes and findings covered rounds out the volume. All in all, the work presents our species, Homo sapiens, as what we truly have been and will likely remain—an influential, and often the most influential, constituent in nearly every major ecosystem on Earth.

Author : Jeffrey K. McKee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813558778
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sparing Nature written by Jeffrey K. McKee and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are humans too good at adapting to the earth’s natural environment? Every day, there is a net gain of more than 200,000 people on the planet—that’s 146 a minute. Has our explosive population growth led to the mass extinction of countless species in the earth’s plant and animal communities? Jeffrey K. McKee contends yes. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing Nature, he explores the cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a richly diverse living world and a rapidly expanding number of people. The author probes the past to find that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture. Today entire ecosystems are in peril due to the relentless growth of the human population. McKee gives a guided tour of the interconnections within the living world to reveal the meaning and value of biodiversity, making the maze of technical research and scientific debates accessible to the general reader. Because it is clear that conservation cannot be left to the whims of changing human priorities, McKee takes the unabashedly neo-Malthusian position that the most effective measure to save earth’s biodiversity is to slow the growth of human populations. By conscientiously becoming more responsible about our reproductive habits and our impact on other living beings, we can ensure that nature’s services will make our lives not only supportable, but also sustainable for this century and beyond.

Author : M.L. Narasaiah
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788183560658
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Population and Biodiversity written by M.L. Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Fertility Rates: The Decline is Stalling, The Good News about Population Growth, Population Growth Facts and Figures, Population and the Environment: The Global Challenge, Measuring Population s Impact, The Population Challenge, What is Known About Reducing Maternal Mortality? Safe Motherhood is a Human Rights Issue, Ecosystems, Our Unknown Protectors, Forests: The Earth s Lungs, Biodiversity, Living with Diversity, Global Warming: Worrisome Signs, Climate Change, Forests, An Agenda for Change, Ecotourism or Ecocide?, Urbanisation and the Environment, Towards Healthy Cities, Sustainable Cities, Consuming the Future, The Future of Work, Energy and Sustainability, Development: The Third Way, Employment and Promoting Ecology: How a Service Culture Could Put People Back to Work, South Asia Quarrels Over Water, Using Economics to Advantage, A Crucial Encounter, Sustainable Tourism and the Environment, Pro-poor Tourism: Opportunities for Sustainable Local Development, Consumption Bomb, The Persistence of Indian Poverty and its Alleviation, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Food Production, No Progress without a Secular Society, What s Driving Migration, Major Cyclones in Andhra Pradesh: Some Observations.

Author : Brian C. O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521018029
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Population and Climate Change written by Brian C. O'Neill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the 21st century: population growth (and associated demographic trends such as aging) and climate change. It is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis who integrate both natural science and social science perspectives in a way that is comprehensible to members of both communities. The book will be of primary interest to researchers in the fields of climate change, demography, and economics. It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs dealing with issues of population dynamics and climate change, and to teachers and students in courses such as environmental studies, demography, climatology, economics, earth systems science, and international relations.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264597042
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets the economic and business case for urgent and ambitious action on biodiversity. It presents a preliminary assessment of current biodiversity-related finance flows, and discusses the key data and indicator gaps that need to be addressed to underpin effective monitoring of both the pressures on biodiversity and the actions (i.e. responses) being implemented. The report concludes with ten priority areas where G7 and other countries can prioritise their efforts.

Author : Richard P. Cincotta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642167089
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Human Population written by Richard P. Cincotta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the dynamic patterns of human density and distribution are examined in relation to the viability of native species and the integrity of their habitats. Social, biological, and earth scientists describe their models, outline their conclusions from field studies, and review the contributions of other scientists whose work is essential to this field. The book starts with general theories and broad empirical relationships that help explain dramatic changes in the patterns of the occurrence of species, changes that have developed in parallel with human population growth, migration and settlement. In the following chapters specific biomes and ecosystems are highlighted as the context for human interactions with other species. A discussion of the key themes and findings covered rounds out the volume. All in all, the work presents our species, Homo sapiens, as what we truly have been and will likely remain—an influential, and often the most influential, constituent in nearly every major ecosystem on Earth.

Author : Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sustaining Life on Earth written by Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCOMPLETE.