Norman Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3703548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies
A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio-ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies all support the goal of unlimited growth of material production and consumption as a proxy for quality of life. However, abundant evidence shows that, beyond a certain threshold, further material growth no longer significantly contributes to improvement in quality of li…
The Last Extinction
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area required for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 19…
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of remaining natural habitats has continued largely unabated. However, evidence has been accumulating that such systems generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exceed those obtained from continued habitat conversion. We estimate that the overall benef…
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities
Financing change: The financial community, eco-efficiency and sustainable development
The Population/Environment Predicament: Even More Urgent than Supposed
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Environmental Refugees
Economics of the environment: A seismic shift in thinking
Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment
Ultimate security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability
Studies for the 21st century
Into the 21st century: A handbook for a sustainable future
State of the World 1993
The World's Forests and Human Populations: The Environmental Interconnections
THE WORLD'S FORESTS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN SEEN as sources of timber and fuelwood. More recently, tropical forests in particular have come to be perceived as sites for agricultural expansion-a consequence, in part, of the rise in human numbers and human technology. But like the longstanding timber-and-fuelwood approach, this new approach overlooks the many other goods and services that forests have to offer. For instance, there has been scant re…
The Fragile Environment: The Darwin College Lectures
The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership
Environment and Security
Threatened biotas: "Hot spots" in tropical forests
State of the environment: A view toward the nineties
Tropical Forests and Forestry: Review
Tropical deforestation and species extinctions
Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management
An interdisciplinary team served as consultants to an analytical formula outlined in this atlas to manage the Earth wisely so as to prevent its and our own demise. It reminds us that Earth is a living planet composed of numerous interconnected parts. Considerable environmental data statistical predictions and sometimes opposing opinions and solutions are organized into an easy logical framework. This framework allows us to scrutinize any crucial …
A Wealth of Wild Species: Storehouse for Human Welfare
The Exhausted Earth
Environment and Security
Ultimate security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability
Environmental Refugees
Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management
An interdisciplinary team served as consultants to an analytical formula outlined in this atlas to manage the Earth wisely so as to prevent its and our own demise. It reminds us that Earth is a living planet composed of numerous interconnected parts. Considerable environmental data statistical predictions and sometimes opposing opinions and solutions are organized into an easy logical framework. This framework allows us to scrutinize any crucial …
A Wealth of Wild Species: Storehouse for Human Welfare
Studies for the 21st century
State of the World 1993
The World's Forests and Human Populations: The Environmental Interconnections
THE WORLD'S FORESTS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN SEEN as sources of timber and fuelwood. More recently, tropical forests in particular have come to be perceived as sites for agricultural expansion-a consequence, in part, of the rise in human numbers and human technology. But like the longstanding timber-and-fuelwood approach, this new approach overlooks the many other goods and services that forests have to offer. For instance, there has been scant re…
Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment
State of the environment: A view toward the nineties
The case of tropical forests
The Population/Environment Predicament: Even More Urgent than Supposed
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tropical deforestation and species extinctions
The case of tropical forests
The Exhausted Earth
A Wealth of Wild Species: Storehouse for Human Welfare
Tropical Forests and Forestry: Review
Tropical deforestation and species extinctions
Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management
An interdisciplinary team served as consultants to an analytical formula outlined in this atlas to manage the Earth wisely so as to prevent its and our own demise. It reminds us that Earth is a living planet composed of numerous interconnected parts. Considerable environmental data statistical predictions and sometimes opposing opinions and solutions are organized into an easy logical framework. This framework allows us to scrutinize any crucial …
Threatened biotas: "Hot spots" in tropical forests
State of the environment: A view toward the nineties
The Fragile Environment: The Darwin College Lectures
The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership
Environment and Security
The World's Forests and Human Populations: The Environmental Interconnections
THE WORLD'S FORESTS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN SEEN as sources of timber and fuelwood. More recently, tropical forests in particular have come to be perceived as sites for agricultural expansion-a consequence, in part, of the rise in human numbers and human technology. But like the longstanding timber-and-fuelwood approach, this new approach overlooks the many other goods and services that forests have to offer. For instance, there has been scant re…
Ultimate security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability
Studies for the 21st century
Into the 21st century: A handbook for a sustainable future
State of the World 1993
Economics of the environment: A seismic shift in thinking
Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment
Financing change: The financial community, eco-efficiency and sustainable development
The Population/Environment Predicament: Even More Urgent than Supposed
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Environmental Refugees
Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area required for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 19…
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of remaining natural habitats has continued largely unabated. However, evidence has been accumulating that such systems generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exceed those obtained from continued habitat conversion. We estimate that the overall benef…
The Last Extinction
Political science (14 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Natural resource economics (9 works) · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)