National botanical gardens at the forefront of global plant conservation
Hai Ren, Alexandre Antonelli
Abstract
Global changes in land use driven by demands on food, energy, and other resources in response to a rapidly increasing human population have collectively led to escalating environmental challenges, including biodiversity loss, global warming, environmental pollution, and ecosystem degradation. At present, biodiversity is seriously threatened at global, regional, and local scales, which, in turn, threatens our own survival. Biodiversity is a global asset of immense material and non-material value, providing us with food, medicine, building materials, fiber, and the ecological environment required for our well-being and health.
Topics & Concepts
Convention on Biological DiversityBiodiversityEnvironmental planningPopulationTreatyEnvironmental resource managementAgricultural biodiversityGeographyConventionPolitical scienceEnvironmental protectionNatural resource economicsEcologyEnvironmental scienceBiologySociologyDemographyEconomicsLawBotany and Geology in Latin America and CaribbeanEcology and Conservation StudiesBiological Control of Invasive Species