Biological extinction : new perspectives / edited by Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden, Anna L. McIvor, University of Cambridge
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Introduction / Partha S. Dasgupta and Peter H. Raven -- Prologue. Extinction : what it means to us / Martin Rees -- 1. Extinction in deep time : lessons from the past? / Neil Shubin -- 2. Biodiversity and global change : from creator to victim / Timothy M. Lenton -- 3. The state of the world's biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm and Peter H. Raven -- 4. Extinction threats to life in the ocean and opportunities for their amelioration / Jenna M. Sullivan, Vanessa Constant and Jane Lubchenco -- 5. Out of the soil : soil (dark matter biodiversity) and societal 'collapses' from Mesoamerica to Mesopotamia and beyond / Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Nicholas P. Dunning -- 6. The green revolution and crop biodiversity / Prabhu L. Pingali -- 7. Population : the current state and future prospects / John Bongaarts -- 8. Game over? : drivers of biological extinction in Africa / Calestous Juma -- 9. Why we're in the sixth great extinction and what it means to humanity / Partha S. Dasgupta and Paul R. Ehrlich -- 10. The consequences of biodiversity loss for human well-being / Charles Perrings and Ann Kinzig -- 11. Terra incognita : in search of the disconnect / Mathis Wackernagel -- 12. How do we stem biodiversity loss? / Gretchen C. Daily and Stephen Polasky -- 13. Can smart villages help to stem biodiversity loss? / Brian Heap, John Holmes and Bernie Jones -- 14. The new design condition : planetary urbanism + resource scarcity + climate change / John T. Hoal
