Overview
- Lee Hannah, along with his selected authors, are some of the few people really working on the issue of extinction and climate change today
- There is no more important issue in conservation biology than climate change and there is likely no issue for which we are less prepared
- This book will provide an important resource for helping to redirect traditional conservation biology to take on this evolving global stressor
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Conservation Implications
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific critique.
Saving a Million Species reconsiders the central question of that paper: How many species may perish as a result of climate change and associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Saving a Million Species
Book Subtitle: Extinction Risk from Climate Change
Editors: Lee Hannah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-182-5
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Island Press 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-182-5Published: 23 April 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 420
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Nature Conservation, Sustainable Development
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Finance, Business & Banking, Oil, Gas & Geosciences
