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Human health and forests [electronic resource] : a global overview of issues, practice, and policy / edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer.

Contributor(s): Series: People and Plants International conservation seriesPublication details: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.Description: xxii, 374 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 614.4/2252 22
LOC classification:
  • RA566 .H86 2008eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.