Biodiversity and Nature Conservation

The impact of human activities on the environment is perhaps now reaching its greatest level of awareness in human history. There is concern regarding health effects of pollutants generated by industry, climate change related to burning of fossil fuels and effects of anthropogenic activities in terms of promoting the extinction of biological species. Proposals are being put forward at local, national and international levels to preserve biodiversity. It is commonly believed that human activities, if not controlled, will lead to dramatic decreases in the earth's biodiversity. In this report, temporal perspectives of biodiversity (e.g. from palaeontology) are emphasized both as reasons for conservation and as possible errors of reasoning in conservation debates. Questions and novel implications related to an integral view of humans as a part of nature are also presented in the context of related environmental issues

Archaeology · Biodiversity · Biodiversity conservation · Biology · Climate change · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Geography · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Philosophy · Ecology · Paleontology