Human health and forests
Subtitle: a global overview of issues, practice, and policy
By: edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
Contributors: Colfer, Carol J. Pierce.
Series: People and plants international conservation series
Publisher: Earthscan; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781844075324
Subjects: Environmental health; Forests and forestry -- Health aspects; Forest policy -- Health aspects; Environmental Health; Trees; Biological Products; Conservation of Natural Resources; Developing Countries; Disease -- etiology
Description: "This book, written for a broad audience, is the first comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America, and Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carol J. Pierce Colfer; title: Human health and forests: an overview / Colin Butler; title: Health, habitats, and medicinal plant use / Anthony B. Cunningham, Patricia Shanley, and Sarah Laird; title: The nutritional role of forest plant foods for rural communities / Barbara Vinceti, Pablo Eyzaguirre, and Tim Johns; title: Wood, the fuel that warms you thrice / Kirk Smith; title: Forest women, health, and childbearing / Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Richard G. Dudley, and Robert Gardner; title: The gender agenda and tropical forest diseases / Pascale Allotey, Margaret Gyapong, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer; title: Bat-borne viral diseases / Jean Paul Gonzalez ... [et al.]; title: Deforestation and malaria: revisiting the human ecology perspective / Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and Junko Yasuoka; title: The subversive links between HIV/AIDS and the forest sector / Pascal Lopez; title: Forest disturbance and health risks to the Yanomami / Gale Goodwin Gómez; title: Biodiversity, environment, and health among rainforest dwellers: an evolutionary perspective / Alain Froment; title: Sociocultural dimensions of diet and health in forest dwellers' systems / Edmond Dounias, with Carol J. Pierce Colfer; title: National public health initiatives that integrate traditional medicine / Cynthia Fowler; title: Approaching conservation through health / Robbie Ali; title: Hidden suffering on the island of Siberut, West Sumatra / Gerard A. Persoon; title: Conclusions and ways forward / Carol J. Pierce Colfer.