Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 137 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 1266 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Global Resources Sciences of the United States of America 104 no. 50 2007 19 691-19 696. Stainforth D. A. et al. Issues in the Interpretation of Climate Model Ensembles to Inform Decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 365 2007 2163-2177. Walker Gabrielle and D. A. King. The Hot Topic What We Can Do About Global Warming. Orlando Fla. Harcourt 2008. Web Sites Gateway to the . System s Work on Climate Change http climatechange United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change http See also Air pollution and air pollution control Earth Summit Environmental ethics Greenhouse gases and global climate change United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change World Bank. United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Category Laws and conventions Date Adopted June 5 1992 entered into force December 29 1993 During the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCED world decision makers agreed on the concept of sustainable development as the main path for future development. The conser vation of biodiversity is a key element of the sustainable development strategy because diverse ecological systems provide the basis for human life and sharing conser vation benefits is a prerequisite for effective conser vation management and poverty reduction. Background While nature conservation and environmental protection have long histories one of the major events was the establishment of the Yellowstone National Park in 1872 which was followed by the global spread of the idea of national parks. However establishing international frameworks for conserving biodiversity took more than one hundred years. Efforts for standardization were started by among others the .
