TY - CHAP AU - Stuart A. Harris ED - Gbolagade Akeem Lameed Y1 - 2012-08-29 PY - 2012 T1 - The Role that Diastrophism and Climatic Change Have Played in Determining Biodiversity in Continental North America N2 - This book "Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World" sees biodiversity as management and utilization of resources in satisfying human needs in multi-sectional areas including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and other exhaustible and inexhaustible resources. Its value is to fulfill actual human preferences and variability of life is measured by amount of genetic variation available. In viewing diversity as an ultimate moral value, one is faced with a situation in environmental preservation in order to allow components of total diversity to flourish and constitute a threat to continuous existence and decrease total diversity. The overall importance described economic benefits from bio-diversity, though difficult to measure and varying, but are limited on a local scale, increase on a regional or national scale and become potentially substantial on a transnational or global scale. BT - Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World SP - Ch. 10 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/50286 DO - 10.5772/50286 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -