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Suggested Citation:"C: Acknowledgments." National Research Council. 1999. Perspectives on Biodiversity: Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9589.
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Acknowledgments

The committee acknowledges with appreciation presentations made at meetings of the committee and personal communications by the following:

Greg Aplet, The Wilderness Society

Lupe Armas, US Marine Corps

Gary Bell, The Nature Conservancy

L. Peter Boice, US Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Environment

A. Gordon Brown, Office of the Secretary of the Interior

Slader Buck, US Marine Corps

Dana Clark, Center for International Environmental Law

Virginia Dale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

John Dennis, US National Park Service

Jon Doggett, American Farm Bureau Association

Robert Evenson, Yale University

Allan Fitzsimmons, Balanced Resource Solutions

Richard Forman, Harvard University

William R. Hansen, US Army Corps of Engineers

Dave Harpman, US Bureau of Reclamation

Anne Heissenbuttel, American Forest and Paper

Michael Kaplowitz, Michigan State University

Ross Kiester, USDA Forest Service

Keith Knoblock, National Mining Association

Michelle Leslie, The Nature Conservancy

Herb Manig, American Farm Bureau

Rev. James A. Nash, Wesley Seminary

Suggested Citation:"C: Acknowledgments." National Research Council. 1999. Perspectives on Biodiversity: Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9589.
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Ronald Pulliam (formerly US National Biological Service)

Doug Ripley, US Department of the Air Force

Carl Roundtree, US Bureau of Land Management

Kathy Saterson, World Wildlife Foundation

Rob Schallenberger, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Mark Schoepfle, US Bureau of Indian Affairs

Allan Shearer, Harvard University

Lew Shotten, US Department of the Navy

R. David Simpson, Resources for the Future

Carl Steinitz, Harvard University

Jim Streeter, National Wildlife Institute

Cynthia Swanson, USDA Forest Service

Bob Szaro, USDA Forest Service

Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute

Robert Wills, The Nature Conservancy

Charles Wright, US Department of the Army

Suggested Citation:"C: Acknowledgments." National Research Council. 1999. Perspectives on Biodiversity: Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9589.
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Suggested Citation:"C: Acknowledgments." National Research Council. 1999. Perspectives on Biodiversity: Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9589.
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Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect.

Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components—including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity.

The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.

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