Appendix E 



Commissioned Papers and Autiiors 



This report was possible because of the valuable information and analyses contained in the background 

 reports commissioned by OTA. These papers were reviewed and critiqued by the advisory panel, work- 

 groups, and outside reviewers. The papers are available in a separate six-part volume through the National 

 Technical Information Service.' 



VALUES 



Papers 



An Economic Perspective of the Valuation of 

 Biological Diversity 



Values and Biological Diversity 



An Ecological Perspective on the Valuation of 

 Biological Diversity 



Impact of Changing Technologies on the 

 Valuation of Genetic Resources (1st draft only) 



Critical Assessment of the Value of and 

 Concern for the Maintenance of Biological 

 Diversity 



Author(s) 



Alan Randall 

 University of Kentucky 



Bryan G. Norton 



New College of the University of South Florida 



Gordon Orians and William Kunin 

 University of Washington 



Lawrence A. Riggs 

 Genrec 



Malcolm F. McPherson 



Harvard Institute for International Development 



MANAGED SYSTEMS -PLANTS 



Status and Trends of Wild Plants 



Status and Trends of Agricultural Crop Species 



Diversity and Distribution of Wild Plants 



New Technologies and the Enhancement of 

 Plant Germ Plasm Diversity 



Plant Germplasm Storage Technologies 



Technologies To Evaluate and Characterize 

 Plant Germplasm 



Assessment of Plant Quarantine Practices 



Assessment of Market Institutional Factors 

 Affecting the Plant Breeding System 



Historical Analysis of Genetic Resources 

 Valuation 



Technologies To Maintain Microbial Diversity 



Hugh Synge 



Conservation Monitoring Center 



Christine Prescott-AUen 

 PADATA, Inc. 



Marshall Crosby and Peter H. Raven 

 Missouri Botanical Garden 



Tom j. Orton 



DNA Plant Technology Corp. 



Leigh Towill, Eric E. Roos, 

 and Phillip C. Stanwood 

 National Seed Storage Laboratory 



Norm F. Weeden and David A. Young 

 Cornell University 



Robert P. Kahn 

 USDA-APHIS-PPQ 



Frederick A. Bliss 

 University of Wisconsin 



Jean Pierre Berlan-Universite Daix Marseille 

 Richard Lowentin-Harvard University 



Jake Halliday and Dwight D. Baker 

 Battelle-Kettering 



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