Biodiversity and Human Health

Foreword Thomas E. Lovejoy
Preface Philip E. Schambra
Acknowledgments
Introduction Francesca Grifo and Joshua Rosenthal
 
PART I. Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Loss for Human Health
Chapter 1. Global Environmental Degradation and Biodiversity Loss: Implications for Human Health Eric Chivian
Chapter 2. Earthly Dominion: Population Growth, Biodiversity, and Health Robert Engleman
Chapter 3. Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Integrating Health and Ecosystem Monitoring Paul R. Epstein, Andrew Dobson, and John Vandermeer
Chapter 4. Fatal Synergisms: Interactions between Infectious Diseases, Human Population Growth, and Loss of Biodiversity Andrew Dobson, Mary S. Campbell, and Jensa Bell
Chapter 5. Biodiversity Loss In and Around Agroecosystems John Vandermeer
 
PART II. Drug Discovery from Biological Diversity
Chapter 6. The Origins of Prescription Drugs Contents Francesca Grifo, David Newman, Alexandra S. Fairfield, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, and John T. Grupenhoff
Chapter 7. Natural Products for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases Catherine A. Laughlin and Alexandra S. Fairfield
Chapter 8. Capturing the Chemical Value of Biodiversity: Economic Perspectives and Policy Prescriptions Anthony Artuso
 
PART Ill. Biodiversity and Traditional Health Systems
Chapter 9. Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Paul Alan Cox
Chapter 10. Medicinal Plants for Healing the Planet: Biodiversity and Environmental Health Care Robert S. McCaleb
Chapter 11. Returning Benefits from Ethnobotanical Drug Discovery to Native Communities Katy Moran
 
PART IV. An Agenda for the Future: Conserving Biodiversity and Human Health
Chapter 12. A Paradigm for the Equitable Sharing of Benefits Resulting from Biodiversity Research and Development Thomas D. Mays, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Gordon Cragg, and Michael Boyd
Chapter 13. Integrating Drug Discovery, Biodiversity Conservation, and Economic Development: Early Lessons from the
International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Joshua Rosenthal
Chapter 14. Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: Liquidation of Natural Capital and Biodiversity
Resource Development in Costa Rica Daniel H. Janzen
Chapter 15. Sustainable Use of Biodiversity: Myths, Realities, and Potential Charles M. Peters
Chapter 16. Opportunities for Collaboration between the Biomedical and Conservation Communities Walter V. Reid
 
Afterword: A Proposal for a National Council on Biodiversity and Human Health Byron J. Bailey and John T. Grupenhoff
Contributors
Index