CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSERVATION -- Biological Surveys, Inventory, and Monitoring -- National Biological Inventories -- Global Biological Survey -- Screening of Organisms -- Monitoring -- Conservation Research -- Site-Specific Research -- Conservation Biology Principles and Methods -- Sustainable Use of Biological Resources -- Restoring and Utilizing Degraded Lands -- Information Needs -- Computer Data Bases and Inventories -- Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems -- Strengthening Scientific Networks -- Human Resources -- Developing Taxonomic Expertise -- Strengthening Local Institutions -- Expanding Cooperative Research Programs -- SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT -- Project-or Country-Level Research -- International Economic Research -- Global Macroeconomic Research -- CULTURAL CONTEXT -- Local Management Systems -- Adapting Local Knowledge -- Promoting Local Knowledge -- Priority Groups -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 1 Biodiversity and Development -- BIODIVERSITY: DEFINITIONS AND VALUES -- LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY -- Natural Versus Accelerated Rates of Biodiversity Loss -- SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF BIODIVERSITY -- Plants -- Fungi -- Microorganisms -- Invertebrates -- Vertebrates -- Tropical Aquatic Systems -- Marine Biota -- IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES -- Responding to Research Needs -- 2 Biological Aspects of Conservation -- BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS, INVENTORY, AND MONITORING -- National Biological Inventories -- Research Priorities -- Global Biological Survey -- Research Priorities -- Screening of Organisms -- Research Priorities -- Monitoring -- Research Priorities -- CONSERVATION RESEARCH -- Site-Specific Research -- Research Requirements -- Goals and Guidelines -- Recommended Areas for Site Selection -- Research Priorities.

Conservation Biology Principles and Methods -- Research Priorities -- Sustainable Use of Biological Resources -- Research Priorities -- Restoring and Using Degraded Lands -- Research Priorities -- INFORMATION NEEDS -- Computer Data Bases and Inventories -- Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems -- Strengthening Scientific Networks -- HUMAN RESOURCES -- Developing Taxonomic Expertise -- Strengthening Local Institutions -- Expanding Cooperative Research Programs -- 3 Biodiversity Research: The Socioeconomic Context -- ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND THE CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY -- PROJECT-OR COUNTRY-LEVEL ECONOMIC RESEARCH -- Analysis of Causal Mechanisms -- Research Agenda -- Valuation Research -- Research Agenda -- Research on Economic Incentives and Disincentives -- Research Agenda -- INTERNATIONAL-LEVEL ECONOMIC RESEARCH -- GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH -- OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION -- 4 Biodiversity Research: The Cultural Context -- DIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT -- LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND BIODIVERSITY -- Nature of Local Knowledge -- Tropical Technologies -- Shifting Agriculture -- Intensive Agricultural Systems -- Extensive Systems -- Tropical Forests -- RESEARCH ON LOCAL KNOWLEDGE -- Priority Groups for Research -- A Cultural Research Agenda -- Use of Resources-Social Concepts of Biodiversity -- Effects of Land or Resource Tenure and Uses on Biological Diversity -- Impact of Changing Conditions -- Social Valuation of Biodiversity at the National Level -- References and Recommended Reading -- Board on Science and Technology for International Development -- MEMBERS -- HOW TO ORDER BOSTID REPORTS -- ENERGY -- TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS -- PLANTS -- INNOVATIONS IN TROPICAL FORESTRY -- MANAGING TROPICAL ANIMAL RESOURCES -- HEALTH -- RESOURCE MANAGEMENT -- FORTHCOMING BOOKS FROM BOSTID -- BOSTID Publication Distributors.