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  1. Tangley, Laura. "Biological Diversity Goes Public." BioScience 36.11 (Dec. 1986): 708-15.
  2. Gaston, Kevin J. "What is Biodiversity?" Biodiversity: A Biology of Numbers and Difference. Ed. Kevin J. Gaston. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Science, 1996. 1-9.
  3. Hannigan, John A. "Biodiversity Loss: The Successful 'Career' of a Global Environmental Problem." Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge, 1995. 146-61.
  4. Harmon, David. "On the Meaning and Moral Imperative of Diversity." On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. 53-70.
  5. Kaiser, Jocelyn. "Ecologists on a Mission to Save the World." Science 287 (18 Feb. 2000): 1188-92.
  6. Brown, Kathryn. "A New Breed of Scientist-Activist Emerges." Science 287 (18 Feb. 2000): 1192-95.
  7. Galusky, Wyatt James. "The Promise of Conservation Biology: The Professional and Political Challenges of an Explicitly Normative Science." Organization and Environment 13.2 (June 2000): 226-32.
  8. Soulé, Michael E. "What is Conservation Biology?" BioScience 35.11 (Dec. 1985): 727-34.
  9. Dobson, Andrew P., and Jon Paul Rodriguez. "Conservation Biology, Discipline of." Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Ed. Simon Asher Levin. 5 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001. 1: 855-64.
  10. Patrick, Ruth. "Biological Diversity in Ecology." Benchmark Papers in Ecology. Vol. 13: Diversity. Stroudsburg, Penn.: Hutchinson Publishing Company, 1983. 8-13.
  11. Tilman, David. "Causes, Consequences, and Ethics of Biodiversity." Nature 405 (11 May 2000): 208-11.
  12. Kaiser, Jocelyn. "Rift Over Biodiversity Divides Ecologists." Science 289 (25 Aug. 2000): 1282-83.
  13. Guterman, Lila. "Have Ecologists Oversold Biodiversity?" Chronicle of Higher Education (13 Oct. 2000): A24.
  14. Lomborg, Bjørn. "Biodiversity." The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. 249-57.
  15. Proctor, James D. "Solid Rock and Shifting Sands: The Moral Paradox of Saving a Societally Constructed Nature." Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics. Ed. Noel Castree and Bruce Braun. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. 225-39.
  16. Rolston, Holmes, III. "Biodiversity." A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. Ed. Dale Jamieson. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. 402-15.
  17. Kellert, Stephen R. "Endangered Species." The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996. 155-84.
  18. Norton, Bryan G. "Biological Diversity." Toward Unity Among Environmentalists. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. 136-54.
  19. Swimme, Brian, and Thomas Berry. "Prologue: The Story." The Universe Story. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 7-15.
  20. Fleischner, Thomas L. "Revitalizing Natural History." Wild Earth Summer 1999: 81-89.
  21. Foreman, Dave. "Wilderness: From Scenery to Nature." Wild Earth 5.4 (Winter 1995/96): 8-16.
  22. Grumbine, R. Edward. "Using Biodiversity as a Justification for Nature Protection in the U.S." Wild Earth 6.4 (Winter 1996/97): 71-80.
  23. Cooper, Marilyn M. "Environmental Rhetoric in the Age of Hegemonic Politics: Earth First! and the Nature Conservancy." Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Ed. Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996. 236-60.
  24. Luke, Timothy W. "The Nature Conservancy or the Nature Cemetery: Buying and Selling 'Perpetual Care' as Environmental Resistance." Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. 56-74.
  25. Brush, Stephen B. "Protectors, Prospectors, and Pirates of Biological Resources." On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. 517-30.
  26. LaDuke, Winona. "Under the Wild Rice Moon." The Winona LaDuke Reader. Stillwater, Minn: Voyager Press, 2002. 28-34.
  27. Quammen, David. "Planet of Weeds: Tallying the Losses of Earth's Animals and Plants." Harper's Magazine Oct. 1998: 57-69.
  28. Soulé, Michael E. "Challenges to Biological Diversity in Urban Areas." Biodiversity. Ed. Edward O. Wilson. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988. 71-76.
  29. Jordan, William R., III. "'Sunflower Forest': Ecological Restoration as the Basis for a New Environmental Paradigm." Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes. Ed. A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., Judith De Luce, and Carl Pletsch. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. 17-34.
  30. Hull, R. Bruce, and David P. Robertson. "The Language of Nature Matters: We Need a More Public Ecology." Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Ed. Paul H. Gobster and R. Bruce Hull. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000. 97-118.
  31. Soulé, Michael E. "Mind in the Biosphere; Mind of the Biosphere." Biodiversity. Ed. Edward O. Wilson. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988. 465-69.

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