Living off biodiversity : exploring livelihoods and biodiversity issues in natural resource management

<p>This book aims to build a better understanding of how to build on the opportunities -- and how to reduce the risks -- that biodiversity presents to the achievement of sustainable livelihoods for all. It does this by sketching out ways forward for the more effective mainstreaming of biodiversity in the natural resource sectors, to be fitted -- as appropriate -- to a range of different contexts. </p> <p>Includes the following chapters: "Conserving global biological diversity through alternative development paths," "forests, biodiversity and livelihoods: linking policy and practice", "agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods: issues and entry points", "til the cows come home: why conserve livestock biodiversity?", "understanding rangeland diversity", "poverty and aquatic biodiversity", "insect diversity and livelihoods".</p>