State of the wild, 2008-2009 : : a global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans / / Wildlife Conservation Society ; volume editor, Eva Fearn ; foreword by Ward Woods.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Washington, DC : : Island Press,, [2008] 2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | State of the wild
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (307 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
| Notes: | "With a special section: Emerging diseases and conservation: one world--one health." |
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Table of Contents:
- Tipping point : perspective of a climatologist / James Hansen
- Global conservation news highlights
- Discoveries / Margaret Kinnaird
- The rarest of the rare : some of the world's most endangered animals / Catherine Grippo, Taylor H. Ricketts, and Jonathan Hoekstra
- Continuing to consume wildlife : an update / Elizabeth L. Bennett
- Emerging diseases and conservation : one world, one health / Robert A. Cook and William B. Karesh
- Little is big, many is one : zoonoses in the twenty-first century / David Quammen
- Land-use change as a driver of disease / Jonathan A. Patz, Sarah H. Olson, and Jill C. Baumgartner
- Transboundary management of natural resources and the importance of a "one health" approach : perspectives on southern Africa / Steven A. Osofsky, David H.M. Cumming, and Michael D. Kock
- An ounce of prevention : lessons from the first avian influenza scare / William B. Karesh and Kristine Smith
- Why wildlife health matters in North America / John R. Fischer
- Warming oceans, increasing disease : mapping the health effects of climate change / Rita R. Colwell
- Conservation controversy : to cull or not to cull? / Barry Estabrook
- Conservation of wildlife
- The last of the great overland migrations / Joel Berger
- Downward spiral : catastrophic decline of South Asia's vultures / Todd E. Katzner
- Conserving cold-blooded Australians / Richard Shine
- Settling for less : disappearing Diadromous fishes / John Waldman
- Mapping the state of the oceans / Eric W. Sanderson
- Africa's last wild places : why conservation can't wait / J. Michael Fay
- The deep sea : unknown and under threat / Les Watling
- Climate change in the Andes / Carolina Murcia
- Grazers and grasslands : restoring biodiversity to the prairies / James H. Shaw
- Conservation and human displacement / Arun Agrawal, Kent H. Redford, and Eva Fearn
- Conservation psychology : who cares about the biodiversity crisis? / John Fraser and Jessica Sickler
- Biogenetics and conservation : celebrate or worry? / Stephen C. Aldrich
- Conservation in conflict : illegal drugs versus habitat in the Americas / Liliana M. Davalos and Adriana C. Bejarano
- Rewilding the islands / C. Josh Donlan
- Addressing AIDS : conservation in Africa / Judy Oglethorpe and Daulos Mauambeta
- Conservation as diplomacy / Steven E. Sanderson
- Final thoughts. Profession : Awajun / Walter H. Wust.