Biodiversity

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Biodiversity — Is there a second chance?

      • Clas M. Naumann

      Pages 3-11

   3. Knotted ropes, rings, lattices and lace: Retrofitting biodiversity into the cultural landscape

      • Newton Harrison, Helen Mayer Harrison

      Pages 13-31

   4. Teaching sustainable management of renewable resources

      • Dennis L. Meadows, Thomas S. Fiddaman

      Pages 33-40

3. Biodiversity: Basis facts and trends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Marine biodiversity — Thoughts on the subjects and their investigators

      • Gerhard Haszprunar

      Pages 43-52

   3. Aspects of botanical biodiversity in southern African arid regions — An outline of concepts and results

      • Norbert Jürgens

      Pages 53-70

   4. The Surumoni project: The botanical approach toward gaining an interdisciplinary understanding of the functions of the rain forest canopy

      • Wilfried Morawetz

      Pages 71-80

4. Biodiversity in change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Zonal features of phytodiversity under natural conditions and under human impact — a comparative survey

      • Michael Richter

      Pages 83-109

   3. Fluctuations, chaos and succession in a living environment

      • Frank Klötzli

      Pages 111-127

   4. Landscape diversity — a holistic approach

      • Hartmut Leser, Peter Nagel

      Pages 129-143

   5. Loss of biodiversity in European agriculture during the twentieth century

      • Walter Kühbauch

      Pages 145-155

   6. Traditional use of tropical biodiversity in Melanesia

      • Wulf Schiefenhövel

      Pages 157-172

5. Consequences for development and environmental policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Science and technology — Sustainable economics (condensed version)

      • José A. Lutzenberger

      Pages 175-180

   3. Biodiversity — resource for new products, development and self-reliance

      • Werner Nader, Nicolas Mateo

      Pages 181-197

   4. Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing

      • Marc Auer

      Pages 199-207

6. Bolivia — A megadiversity country

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Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "diversity of species", is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized. Today we know that "biological diversity is a global asset of incalculable value to present and future generations" (Kofi Annan). Biodiversity is spread unequally over the world: in fact, the main share of biological resources worldwide is harboured predominantly by the so-called developing countries in the tropics and sub tropics. Therefore, Biodiversity - A Challenge for Development Research and Policy was chosen as the title for an international conference which was held in Bonn in 1997 as one of the first major events organized by the then newly established North-South Centre for Development Research (ZEF) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany). Since the ZEF, founded by the Senate of the University of Bonn in 1995, has played a central role in turning Bonn into a centre for international cooperation and North-South dialogue. The Centre is a product of the Bonn­ Berlin agreement of July 1994 which was adopted to offset the effects caused by the Parliament and much of the Government moving to Berlin. It fits in well with the double strategy to strengthen Bonn's position as an interna­ tional science arena and as an eminent place for development policy and the national and supranational agencies dealing with this issue.

• Agenda 21
• Conservation
• Natur
• Naturschutz
• Rio de Janeiro
• Umwelt
• biodiversity
• development
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• nature
• organization
• species diversity
• sustainable development
• ecotoxicology

• Institute of Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Wilhelm Barthlott, Nadja Biedinger

• Institute of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Matthias Winiger

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