The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy

Edited by Joel Cracraft and Francesca T. Grifo

14. Seeing the World as It Really Is: Global Stability and Environmental Change, by Peter H. Raven and Joel Cracraft

13. Strange Bedfellows: Why Science and Policy Don’t Mesh and What Can Be Done About It, by Jeffrey A. McNeely

IV. What Needs to Be Done

12. Convention on Biological Diversity: Program Priorities in the Early Stage of Implementation, by Kalemani J. Mulongoy, Susan Bragdon, and Antonella Ingrassia

11. The Facts of Life (on Earth), by Thomas E. Lovejoy

10. Saving Biodiversity and Saving the Biosphere, by Norman Myers

III. Biodiversity Science and Policy Formulation

9. The Economic Consequences of Biodiversity Loss, by Dominic Moran and David Pearce

8. Biodiversity Loss and Its Implications for Security and Armed Conflict, by Arthur H. Westing

7. The Implications of Biodiversity Loss for Human Health, by Francesca T. Grifo and Eric Chivian

6. Biodiversity, Agricultural Productivity, and People, by John Burnett

5. Regional and Global Patterns of Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Capacity: Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Needs, by Joel Cracraft

II. Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: Science and Society

4. Requiem 'ternam: The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinctions, by Ross D. E. MacPhee and Clare Flemming

3. The Medium Is the Message: Freshwater Biodiversity in Peril, by Melanie L. J. Stiassny

2. Dimensions of Biodiversity: Targeting Megadiverse Groups, by Norman I. Platnick

1. The Magnitude of Global Biodiversity and Its Decline, by Nigel E. Stork

I. Science of Diversity and Extinction

Related Subjects

• General Biology

About the Author

Joel Cracraft is Curator, Department of Orinthology, American Museum of Natural History and an adjunct professor at the City University of New York. Francesca T. Grifo is Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History.

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