The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference

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Product Description Visually rich, up-to-date, and authoritative, The Atlas of Global Conservation is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Drawing from the best data available, it is an unprecedented guide to the state of the planet and our most pressing resource and environmental issues. Top scientists at The Nature Conservancy, the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and water, have joined forces to create this extraordinary reference. It features 79 richly-detailed, fullcolor maps and other graphics paired with an informative, inviting discussion of major trends across the world’s terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments. Interspersed throughout, essays by noted international authorities point the way forward in confronting some of our greatest conservation challenges. • The most comprehensive single volume on global environmental conservation and future sustainability • Includes the latest data on environmental threats, such as climate change, water use, habitat protection, deforestation and overfishing • Full-color maps and graphics are designed to facilitate sideby-side comparisons, empowering readers to draw their own conclusions • Brings together information that has been widely dispersed across myriad publications and databases in a format thatinvites evaluation and application • Supporting data is available on an accompanying website From School Library Journal Grade 8 Up—Assembled from hundreds of authoritative sources, this valuable atlas will promote a deeper understanding of the immense variety of our world's ecosystems and the array of challenges to their continued stability. Following an introductory overview, brightly colored maps and accompanying essays are arranged in broad categories to highlight, in turn, major habitats; species distributions; ominous changes arising from a range of causes from coastal development to pollution; and effective, protective measures such as establishing nature preserves and regulation of commerce. National boundaries are present but almost invisible on the world maps presented on nearly every spread; instead, it's the natural boundaries of mangrove forests and marine reefs, the color-coded indications of species diversity, human population density, levels of water stress, and like information that stand out, conveying the truth that environmental issues belong to all of us. Gorgeous nature photos on nearly every spread further enhance the presentation. The authors of the substantial narratives eloquently promote the same view while keeping the facts and statistics at digestible levels and gathering the extensive technical notes at the end. Closing with a second set of maps that divide the world into "realms" and show the hundreds of land and water "ecoregions" in each, this work can't help but promote a broader worldview in students of ecology, nature, and conservation— John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Authoritative reference works summarizing the current state of the planet belong in any general reference collection. Written by a team of scientists from the Nature Conservancy, the information presented in this atlas is the result of the collaboration of more than 65 universities, government agencies, research institutions, and conservation organizations from around the world. Written at a level accessible to the general reader, the topically arranged entries typically cover two face-to-face pages. Large color maps, central to the content of this atlas, bring together information from multiple sources into an easy-to-digest format. It is the reliable data behind the maps that will render this atlas particularly useful to students and researchers. In addition to the large color maps, excellent color photographs and illustrations supplement the text. Con