Life counts : cataloguing life on earth / by 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 reasons 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.
