Human health and forests: a global overview of issues, practice, and policy 9781844075324, 9781136563713, 184407532X

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Human health and forests: a global overview of issues, practice, and policy
 9781844075324, 9781136563713, 184407532X

Table of contents :
1., Introduction / Carol J. Pierce Colfer
2., Human health and forests: an overview / Colin Butler
3., Health, habitats, and medicinal plant use / Anthony B. Cunningham, Patricia Shanley, and Sarah Laird
4., The nutritional role of forest plant foods for rural communities / Barbara Vinceti, Pablo Eyzaguirre, and Tim Johns
5., Wood, the fuel that warms you thrice / Kirk Smith
6., Forest women, health, and childbearing / Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Richard G. Dudley, and Robert Gardner
7., The gender agenda and tropical forest diseases / Pascale Allotey, Margaret Gyapong, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer
8., Bat-borne viral diseases / Jean Paul Gonzalez ... [et al.]
9., Deforestation and malaria: revisiting the human ecology perspective / Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and Junko Yasuoka
10., The subversive links between HIV/AIDS and the forest sector / Pascal Lopez
11., Forest disturbance and health risks to the Yanomami / Gale Goodwin Gómez
12., Biodiversity, environment, and health among rainforest dwellers: an evolutionary perspective / Alain Froment
13., Sociocultural dimensions of diet and health in forest dwellers' systems / Edmond Dounias, with Carol J. Pierce Colfer
14., National public health initiatives that integrate traditional medicine / Cynthia Fowler
15., Approaching conservation through health / Robbie Ali
16., Hidden suffering on the island of Siberut, West Sumatra / Gerard A. Persoon
17., Conclusions and ways forward / Carol J. Pierce Colfer.

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