Biodiversity and Health: Linking Life, Ecosystems and Societies
- ISBN-10
- 0081011679
- ISBN-13
- 9780081011676
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-27
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Authors
- Serge Morand, Claire Lajaunie
Description
There is a gap between the ecology of health and the concepts supported by international initiatives such as EcoHealth, One Health or Planetary Health; a gap which this book aims to fill. Global change is accelerated by problems of growing population, industrialization and geopolitics, and the world’s biodiversity is suffering as a result, which impacts both humans and animals. However, Biodiversity and Health offers the unique opportunity to demonstrate how ecological, environmental, medical and social sciences can contribute to the improvement of human health and wellbeing through the conservation of biodiversity and the services it brings to societies. This book gives an expansive and integrated overview of the scientific disciplines that contribute to the connection between health and biodiversity, from the evolutionary ecology of infectious and non-infectious diseases to ethics, law and politics. Presents the first book to give a broad and integrated overview of the scientific disciplines that contribute to health From evolutionary ecology, to laws and policies, this book explores the links between health and biodiversity Demonstrates how ecological sciences, environmental sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences may contribute to improve human health
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
By Aletta Bonn, Horst Korn, Jutta StadlerThis open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing.
-
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
By Aaron Bernstein, Eric ChivianThe Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic,...
-
Biodiversity and Human Health
By Francesca Grifo, Joshua RosenthalBiodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological diversity.
-
Biodiversity Change and Human Health: From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease
By Osvaldo E. Sala, Laura A. Meyerson, Camille ParmesanThe book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural biodiversity and human health and well-being.
-
Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health: A State of Knowledge Review
By World Health Organization, Convention on Biological DiversityWhile the resulting development of our freshwater and terrestrial resources is also associated with some health benefits, these are unevenly distributed, often to the detriment of our most vulnerable populations and carry unintended ...
-
Beyond One Health: From Recognition to Results
By John A. Herrmann, Yvette J. Johnson-WalkerTackling One Health from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book offers in-depth insight into how our health and the health of every living creature and our ecosystem are all inextricably connected.
-
Diversifying Food and Diets: Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health
By Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa BorelliRecognizing the importance of minor millets, particularly local landraces, for food and nutritional security, ... Table C8.1 Nutrients in white rice and minor millets Figure C8.2 Holistic value chain approach applied to minor millets.
-
Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help
By Henk A.M.J. ten HaveTouching on infectious and noncommunicable diseases, as well as food, medicine, and water, Wounded Planet transcends the limited vision of mainstream bioethics to compassionately reveal how healthcare and medicine must take a broad ...
-
Promoting Biodiversity in Food Systems
By Irana W. HawkinsBiodiversity of the food system is crucial for food production and loss of biodiversity is a pressing issue. This book focuses on biodiversity’s crucial role in food systems, health and well-being, and fate of the natural environment.
-
Biodiversity and Biomedicine: Our Future
By Münir Öztürk, Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Milica PešićThis book identifies modern ways to incorporate Earth’s species into biomedical practices and emphasizes the need for biodiversity conservation.