Biodiversity and Health: Linking Life, Ecosystems and Societies (EPUB)

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 well-being 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