Seven Challenges for Sustainability
Challenge 4 -
Loss of Biodiversity through Deforestation
PhD Course
Assignment on challenge 4 –
Loss of Biodiversity through Deforestation
Attend the lectures and debate the 15 and 16 September
Participate in group discussion the 16 September 14-16 hrs
Write an individual one page paper on each of the two questions.
Lecture Notes
Tom Tomich, Sep 16, Pdf fie »
Two questions on Loss of Biodiversity through Deforestation
1) How to use the resource?
We know that rain forests contain the worlds biggest gene-pool (an incredible commercial potential for bio-technology!!), how can this be harnessed to provide benefits to its inhabitants, without ruining the very resource?
2)Who owns the resource?
Since property rights are unclear, who owns this resource, indigenous people or governments?
Does a government has the moral right to sell the access to this resource without consent from indigenous people?
Reading list - Loss of Biodiversity through Deforestation
Why We Should Preserve the Spotted Owl
Amartya Sen
London Review of Books Vol. 26 No. 3 dated 5 February 2004
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n03/sen_01_.html
Biodiversity: luxury or necessity?
Pim Martens, Jan Rotmans, Dolf de Groot
Global Environmental Change 13 (2003) 75–81
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Complex systems and valuation
Karin E. Limburg, Robert V. O’Neill, Robert Costanza,
Stephen Farber
Ecological Economics 41 (2002) 409–420
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Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
Michael Williams
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxvi + 689 pp. $70 (cloth),
ISBN: 0-226-89926-8.
A review
www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0656.shtml
Certification:
A future for the world’s forests
WWF
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