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Index
Cover
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Foreword
Introduction
1: A Brief History on the Links between Health and Biodiversity
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Millennium Development Goals for Ecosystem Services
1.3 From environmental health to “one health”
1.4 Formerly recognized links
2: Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity and Infectious Diseases
Abstract
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
3: Loss of Biological Diversity and Emergence of Infectious Diseases
Abstract
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
4: Loss of Biodiversity and Emergence of Non-infectious Diseases
Abstract
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
5: Anthropogenic Stress
Abstract
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 disruptors
5.6 Antibiotics
5.7 Conclusion
6: Biodiversity Response
Abstract
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
6.10 Conclusion
7: Animal and Human Pharmacopoeias
Abstract
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
8: Well-being
Abstract
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
9: Ecosystem Services for Health and Biodiversity
Abstract
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
10: Biodiversity and Health Scenarios
Abstract
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Prospects and global scenarios
10.3 Worst-case scenarios
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
11: Governance of Biodiversity and Health
Abstract
11.1 Introduction
11.2 International governance of biodiversity and health
11.3 Regional challenges
11.4 Implementation at the national level
12: Ethics, Values and Responsibilities
Abstract
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
13: The Role of Law, Justice and Scientific Knowledge in Health and Biodiversity
Abstract
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
Conclusion
Towards a socio-ecology of health
Towards scientific pluralism
Towards an adaptive law
Bibliography
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