Biodiversity and Development

About the Workshop

Overview & Relevance:

Biological diversity ( the variety of genetic resources, organisms, and the ecological systems in which they occur) is threatened everywhere and is being lost at unprecedented rates which are likely to increase. As non-renewable agricultural, forests, and energy resources are "mined", landscapes are rendered more biologically homogeneous, and pressure mounts on natural habitats which protect genetic resources vital to international development.

Content:

This session explored interdisciplinary aspects of conservation and management of biodiversity resources. Selected topics served as focal points to evaluate necessary collaboration between the natural and social sciences in the search for viable solutions to extinction.

Workshop Topics:

• Climate change impacts on biodiversity conservation and management - Potential development policy implications.
• Critical minimum size for protected areas - Methods to assess human and non-human demographic impacts and trends.
• Alternative approached to economic valuation of rare species and habitats - Expanding the temporal scale.
• Political instability and ecotourism - Can park preserves survive rapid social change and development?
• Agroecosystems and managed forest gardens - Changing views of food production based on biodiversity management in the tropics.
• Extractive use of biodiversity by native peoples - Are there ecological lessons to be learned from traditional management practices?
• Teaching conservation and management - educators' perspectives on the ecological foundations.
  
  

      Roster

Janis Alcorn Miguel Altieri Chris Baines Steven Berwick Charles Chappell Robert Costanza James Diana Aaron Douglas Thurman Grove Gary Hartshorn Chuck Hopkins George Jacobson, Jr. Richard  Johnson Christopher Justice James Lawless Milton McClaren Gregory Miller Norman Myers Robyn Myers Howard Odum Margery Oldfield Christine Padoch Paul Paryski Christopher Potter Charles Roth Tomas Schlichter Amy Vedder Rebecca Vega de Rojas Claude Villeneuve Thomas Wagner William Weber

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Agenda

Thursday, 22nd August
12:00 AM		Remote Sensing and Technology Transfer		Thomas  Wagner
12:00 AM		Walter O. Roberts Public Lecture: Saving Tropical Forests Tropical deforestation is a vivid example of human-caused environmental change and has troubling local and global consequences. In this lecture, Dr. Gary Hartshorn, Executive Director of the Organization for Tropical Studies, provides an overview of tropical deforestation and describes the various approaches he and colleagues have taken to restore tropical forests.   Watch Video		Gary  Hartshorn
12:00 AM		Education Task Group Report
12:00 AM		White Paper Final Discussion Part 1 of 2

Documents

Products & Publications

Extinction & Global Change AGCI Elements of Change Report (1991)