02083nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_12439 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195175093 9780195175097 eng 333.9516 E206 Sustaining life How human health depends on biodiversity edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2008 xxiii, 542 p. ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 29 cm Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. The book's ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world's richly varied biota. Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth, provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction. Drawing on the latest research, but written in language a general reader can easily follow, Sustaining Life argues that we can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, nor assume that we will not be harmed by its alteration. Our health, as the authors so vividly show, depends on the health of other species and on the vitality of natural ecosystems Biodiversity; Environmental health edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein; foreword by Edward O. Wilson; prologue by Kofi Annan Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity,United Nations Development Programme,United Nations Environment Programme,IUCN--The World Conservation Union Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh