Biodiversity Change and Human Health : From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Changes in Biodiversity and Their Consequences for Human Health -- Part I: Biodiversity and Human Health: Synergisms, Trade-offs, and Road Maps for the Future -- Chapter 2: Biodiversity, Food Provision, and Human Health -- Chapter 3: The Impact of Anthropogenic Stress at Global and Regional Scales on Biodiversity and Human Health -- Chapter 4: Biodiversity and Human Health: The Decision-Making Process -- Chapter 5: Sustainable Allocation of Biodiversity to Improve Human Health and Well-Being -- Part II: Biodiversity and Quality of Life: Beyond Physical Health -- Chapter 6: Biodiversity, Quality of Life, and Evolutionary Psychology -- Chapter 7: Quality of Life, Biodiversity, and Health: Observations and Applications -- Part III: Decay of Ecosystem Services Following Biodiversity Change, and Consequent Impacts on Human Health -- Chapter 8: Consequence of Aquatic Biodiversity for Water Quality and Health -- Chapter 9: The Global Nitrogen Cycle, Biodiversity, and Human Health -- Chapter 10: Links between Microbial Diversity, Stressors, and Detoxification Capacity -- Part IV: Biodiversity Change and the Spread of Infectious Diseases -- Chapter 11: Microbial Communities: Patterns and Processes -- Chapter 12: Biodiversity and Health: The Place of Parasitic and Infectious Diseases -- Chapter 13: Biodiversity and Disease -- Chapter 14: Climate Change, Wildlife, and Human Health -- Part V: Biodiversity as a Resource for Medicine -- Chapter 15: Biodiversity and the Search for New Medicines -- Chapter 16: Human Health, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services: The Intertwined Challenging Future -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- SCOPE Series List -- SCOPE Executive Committee 2005-2008 -- Index.

Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural biodiversity and human health and well-being.

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