Brian Walker is past chief of Australia's CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology and is currently science program director of the Resilience Alliance. David Salt is a science writer and editor with 18 years' experience writing and producing popular science magazines and newsletters for a wide range of audiences.
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audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these
critical issues and innovative ways to approach them."--Harold
Mooney "Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford
University"
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