Life counts : cataloguing life on earth / Michael Gleich ... [et al.] ; translated by Steven Rendall ; in collaboration with UNEP, the United National Environment Programme ... [et al.].
Statisticians on safari: our methods for counting the world -- Fossils: nature's methods for counting the world -- The great chroniclers: changing resaons for studying nature -- Human censuses: changing reasons for studying human populations -- Expedition to planet Earth: the world we have yet to discover -- Extinctions: losing species before their roles are understood -- Threatened and threatening: our love-hate relationship with nature and its conservation -- Progress through catastrophes: how extinctions further evolution -- Sustainable use: a new method for protecting species -- Wild economics: calculating nature's worth -- Fair dealing: who gets nature's dividends -- Preserving diversity: the next fifty years -- Maxing out: how many people can the earth support? -- The future of life -- Humans and nature in numbers.
