Understanding the Connection Between Health and Biodiversity

By Serge Morand

There is a significant gap between the ecology of health and the concepts supported by international initiatives such as EcoHealth, One Health, or Planetary Health. This book aims to bridge this gap by exploring the connection between health and biodiversity.

Global change is accelerated by growing population, industrialization, and geopolitics, leading to a decline in biodiversity. This decline not only affects animals but also has a profound impact on human health. The book “Biodiversity and Health” offers a 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 provides to societies.

This book provides an expansive and integrated overview of the scientific disciplines that contribute to the connection between health and biodiversity. It covers topics ranging from the evolutionary ecology of infectious and non-infectious diseases to ethics, law, and politics. The book aims to show how ecological sciences, environmental sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences can work together to improve human health.

Key Features:

• First book to give a broad and integrated overview of the scientific disciplines that contribute to health
• Covers the links between health and biodiversity
• Demonstrates how ecological sciences, environmental sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences may contribute to improve human health
• Explores the evolutionary ecology of infectious and non-infectious diseases
• Discusses ethics, law, and politics related to health and biodiversity

Product Details:

Hardcover: 300 pages

Publisher: ISTE Press – Elsevier; 1 edition (December 6, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1785481150

ISBN-13: 978-1785481154

Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 0.9 x 6.2 inches