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Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xxiii, 542 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-514) and index.

"Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity; United Nations Development Programme; United Nations Environment Programme; IUCN--The World Conservation Union."

What is biodiversity? -- How is biodiversity threatened by human activity? -- Ecosystem services -- Medicines from nature -- Biodiversity and biomedical research -- Threatened groups of organisms valuable to medicine -- Ecosystem disturbance, biodiversity loss, and human infectious disease -- Biodiversity and food production -- Genetically modified foods and organic farming -- What individuals can do to help conserve biodiversity -- Treaties, conventions, and intergovernmental organizations for the conservation of biodiversity -- Nongovernmental organizations working to conserve biodiversity.

ISBN: 9780195175097 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195175093 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Biodiversity.
Environmental health.

LC Class. No.: QH541.15 .B56 / S96 2008