Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends On Biodiversity

 ( Book Product ) 

• Sustaining Life : How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity available on December 18 2022 from BiggerBooks for 12.60
  
• Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends On Biodiversity available on May 12 2022 from Indigo for 38.5
  
• ISBN bar code 9780195175097 ξ1 registered December 18 2022
  
• ISBN bar code 9780195175097 ξ2 registered May 12 2022
  
• Product category is Sustaining Life : How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, 9780195175097, Book, Textbook Book

• Sku # 9780195175097R
  
• Sku # 978019517509
  

And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, Sustaining Life is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, along with more than 100 leading scientists who contributed to writing and reviewing the book, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. The book''s ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world''s richly varied biota. Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth, provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction. Drawing on the latest research, but written in language a general reader can easily follow, Sustaining Life argues that we can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, nor assume that we will not be harmed by its alteration. Our health, as the authors so vividly show, depends on the health of other species and on the vitality of natural ecosystems. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.

^ Chivian, Eric; Bernstein, Aaron (2015). Sustaining Life : How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, Oxford University Press, USA. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780195175097 (revised Dec 2022)
^ Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends On Biodiversity Indigo. ISBN 9780195175097 (revised May 2022)