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Human health and forests : a global overview of issues, practice, and policy
- Title
- Human health and forests : a global overview of issues, practice, and policy / edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
- Publication
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Colfer, Carol J. Pierce.
- Description
- xxii, 374 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- People and Plants International conservation series
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Carol J. Pierce Colfer -- Human health and forests: an overview / Colin Butler -- Health, habitats, and medicinal plant use / Anthony B. Cunningham, Patricia Shanley, and Sarah Laird -- The nutritional role of forest plant foods for rural communities / Barbara Vinceti, Pablo Eyzaguirre, and Tim Johns -- Wood, the fuel that warms you thrice / Kirk Smith -- Forest women, health, and childbearing / Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Richard G. Dudley, and Robert Gardner -- The gender agenda and tropical forest diseases / Pascale Allotey, Margaret Gyapong, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer -- Bat-borne viral diseases / Jean Paul Gonzalez ... [et al.] -- Deforestation and malaria: revisiting the human ecology perspective / Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and Junko Yasuoka -- The subversive links between HIV/AIDS and the forest sector / Pascal Lopez -- Forest disturbance and health risks to the Yanomami / Gale Goodwin Gómez -- Biodiversity, environment, and health among rainforest dwellers: an evolutionary perspective / Alain Froment -- Sociocultural dimensions of diet and health in forest dwellers' systems / Edmond Dounias, with Carol J. Pierce Colfer -- National public health initiatives that integrate traditional medicine / Cynthia Fowler -- Approaching conservation through health / Robbie Ali -- Hidden suffering on the island of Siberut, West Sumatra / Gerard A. Persoon -- Conclusions and ways forward / Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
- Call Number
- JBE 09-208
- ISBN
- 9781844075324 (hardback)
- 184407532X (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2007034789
- OCLC
- 166278695
- Title
- Human health and forests : a global overview of issues, practice, and policy / edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
- Imprint
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.
- Series
- People and Plants International conservation series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Colfer, Carol J. Pierce.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 09-208