week1 - biodiversity conservation - where and when?

pdf of the power point (week 1)

Questions addressed:

Will the Earth after us resemble the Earth before us? When have protected areas been established? Where do they tend to be located? Is there a correlation between the species richness of a region and its human population? What is the key factor behind such correlation?

Recommended readings:

• Robert M. May (2010) Ecological science and tomorrow's world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 41-47 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0164
• Harold A. Mooney (2010) The ecosystem-service chain and the biological diversity crisis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 31-39 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0223
• Alan Weisman (2008) The World Without Us. Picador.
• Jan Zalasiewicz (2009) The Earth After Us. Oxford University Press.

Links:

• US National Park Service
• Natura 2000
• UK National Parks
• London Parks

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