New directions in conservation medicine : applied cases of ecological health / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, and Peter Daszak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aguirre, A. Alonso.

Ostfeld, Richard S., 1954-

Daszak, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health.

Medical geography.

Environmental toxicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (666 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking within the health and ecological sciences and the better understanding of the complexity within these various fields of knowledge. Conservation medicine was born from the cross fertilization of ideas generated by this new transdisciplinary design. It examines the links among changes in climate, habit

Contents:

pt. 1. Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice

pt. 2. Anthropotenic change and conservation medicine

pt. 3. Emerging infectious diseases and conservation medicine

pt. 4. Ecotoxicology and conservation medicine

pt. 5. Place-based conservation medicine

pt. 6. Applied techniques of conservation medicine.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-59551-5

9786613625342

0-19-990905-9

OCLC:

751780353