Biodiversity and health : linking life, ecosystems, societies / / Serge Morand, Claire Lajaunie

• Autore: Morand S.
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : ISTE Press : , : Elsevier, , 2018; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 333.95
• Soggetto topico: Biodiversity
• Persona (resp. second.): LajaunieClaire
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: ; ch. 1 A 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. The first epidemiological transition: "Out of Africa" human migration -- ; 2.5. Genetic diversity and human migration -- ; 2.6. Animal domestication -- ; 2.7. The 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. The hygiene hypothesis and the parasitic diversity crisis -- ; 4.4. The "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. The 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 The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Biodiversity and health
• ISBN: 0-08-101167-9; 1-78548-115-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910583395103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II