Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.

Contributor(s):

Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xxiii, 542 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cmISBN:

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

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.95/16 22

LOC classification:

QH541.15.B56 S96 2008

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	QH541.15 .B56 S96 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001073666

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."

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.