Human Health and Forests

A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
Herausgeber: Colfer, Carol J Pierce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780415848879
• ISBN-10: 0415848873
• Artikelnr.: 37088231

Autorenporträt

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a Senior associate in the Governance Program at CIFOR and a Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Institute for International Food, Agriculture and Development in Ithaca, New York. Her work focuses on strengthening the voices of women and men who live in and near tropical forests. She is co-editor of Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction Part I: Synthetic Analyses 2. Human Health and
Forests: An Overview 3. Health, Habitats and Medicinal Plant Use 4. The
Nutritional Role of Forest Plant Foods for Rural Communities 5. Wood: The
Fuel that Warms You Thrice 6. Forest Women, Health and Childbearing 7. The
Gender Agenda and Tropical Forest Diseases 8. Bat-Borne Viral Diseases 9.
Deforestation and Malaria: Revisiting the Human Ecology Perspective Part
II: Thematic and Regional Health Slices 10. The Subversive Links between
HIV/AIDS and the Forest Sector 11. Forest Disturbance and Health Risks to
the Yanomami 12. Biodiversity, Environment and Health among
Rainforest-Dwellers: An Evolutionary Perspective 13. Sociocultural
Dimensions of Diet and Health in Forest-Dwellers' Systems Part III:
Health-care Delivery in Forests 14. National Public Health Initiatives that
Integrate Traditional Medicine 15. Approaching Conservation through Health
16. Hidden Suffering on the Island of Siberut, West Sumatra 17. Conclusions
and Ways Forward Afterword