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