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Biodiversity and health : linking life, ecosystems and societies /
"Biodiversity and Health: Linking Life, Ecosystems and Societies fills the gap between the ecology of health and the concepts supported by international organizations, such as EcoHealth and One Health. The book provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate how ecological sciences, environmental...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
ISTE Press Ltd,
2018.
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| Colección: | Biodiversity and health.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Brief History on the Links between Health and Biodiversity
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Millennium Development Goals for Ecosystem Services
- 1.3. From environmental health to "one health"
- 1.4. Formerly recognized links
- ch. 2 Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity and Infectious Diseases
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Distribution of infectious diseases: links to biological diversity and cultural diversity
- 2.3. Origins of parasitic and infectious diseases in non-human primates
- 2.4. first epidemiological transition: "Out of Africa" human migration
- 2.5. Genetic diversity and human migration
- 2.6. Animal domestication
- 2.7. beginning of globalization
- 2.8. Conclusion
- ch. 3 Loss of Biological Diversity and Emergence of Infectious Diseases
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Epidemiology of infectious diseases
- 3.3. Reservoirs of zoonotic infectious diseases
- 3.4. Emerging infectious diseases and the biodiversity crisis
- 3.5. Mechanisms of emergence through habitat modification
- 3.6. Mechanisms of emergence through community modification
- 3.7. Genetic diversity of hosts and transmission of infectious diseases
- 3.8. Conclusion
- ch. 4 Loss of Biodiversity and Emergence of Non-infectious Diseases
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Diversity, host parasite co-evolution and the immune system
- 4.3. hygiene hypothesis and the parasitic diversity crisis
- 4.4. "farm" hypothesis: biological diversity and allergies
- 4.5. Conclusion: towards an evolving medicine
- ch. 5 Anthropogenic Stress
- 5.1. Introduction: a planet dominated by humans and their animals
- 5.2. Impact of urbanization and road network
- 5.3. Physiology of stress and health
- 5.4. Effects of phytosanitation and biocides
- 5.5. Endocrine disrupters
- 5.6. Antibiotics
- 5.7. Conclusion
- ch. 6 Biodiversity Response
- 6.1. Introduction: how life has adapted
- 6.2. Anthropization and synanthropy
- 6.3. Resistance to insecticides
- 6.4. Resistance to genetically modified plants
- 6.5. Resistance to antiparasitic drugs: the example of artemisinin
- 6.6. Resistance to antibiotics
- 6.7. Evolution of virulence
- 6.8. New biotechnologies and evolution of resistance: Wolbachia, CRISPR-Cas 9
- 6.9. Ecological and evolutionary engineering
- 6.9.1. Management of resistance to Bt transgenic plants
- 6.9.2. Managing antimicrobial resistance
- 6.9.3. CRISPR-Cas9 technologies
- 6.10. Conclusion
- ch. 7 Animal and Human Pharmacopoeias
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. diversity of plant secondary metabolites
- 7.3. Origin of self-medication in animals and hominids
- 7.4. Ethnobotany and traditional medicine
- 7.5. Bioprospecting, biopiracy and patents
- 7.6. Conservation biology and traditional pharmacopoeia
- 7.7. Loss of biodiversity and knowledge
- 7.8. Conclusion
- ch. 8 Well-being
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Objectivity and subjectivity of well-being
- 8.3. Psychology and the natural environment
- 8.4. Evolutionary psychology and well-being
- 8.5. Theories of habitat and visual refuge, topophilia and biophilia
- 8.6. Implications and applications of biophilia
- 8.7. Traditional knowledge and well-being
- 8.8. Conclusion
- ch. 9 Ecosystem Services for Health and Biodiversity
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Environmental impacts and well-being
- 9.3. Health of ecosystems
- 9.4. Ecosystem services
- 9.5. Ecosystem services and health
- 9.6. Ecosystem disservices and health
- 9.7. Compromise between services, economic development and health
- 9.8. Conclusion
- ch. 10 Biodiversity and Health Scenarios
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Prospects and global scenarios
- 10.2.1. Demography
- 10.2.2. Agriculture and livestock
- 10.2.3. Climate change
- 10.2.4. Biodiversity
- 10.2.5. Human health
- 10.2.6. Animal health
- 10.3. Worst-case scenarios
- 10.3.1. Thresholds and tipping points, planetary limits
- 10.3.2. Collapse
- 10.4. Global risks and "preparedness" for the worst
- 10.5. Towards integrated scenarios
- 10.6. Observations and observatories
- 10.7. Experts and representation of knowledge
- 10.8. Conclusion: scenarios for research and governance
- ch. 11 Governance of Biodiversity and Health
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. International governance of biodiversity and health
- 11.3. Regional challenges
- 11.4. Implementation at the national level
- ch. 12 Ethics, Values and Responsibilities
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Pluralism of scientific approaches
- 12.3. Some definitions
- 12.4. Humanist and human health ethics
- 12.5. Animal and animal health ethics
- 12.6. Environmental ethics
- 12.7. Applied and global environmental ethics
- 12.8. Ethics of foresight and scenarios
- 12.9. Confronting the ethics network
- 12.10. Necessity of pluralism of ethics
- 12.11. Conclusion
- ch. 13 Role of Law, Justice and Scientific Knowledge in Health and Biodiversity
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Complexity, scientific knowledge and informing political decisions
- 13.3. For a law that is in line with reality: difficulty in implementing the principles of transparency, accountability and participation
- 13.4. Scientific knowledge used by citizens for environmental justice
- 13.5. Human rights and the right to science? Environmental and health challenges.