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Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity de Eric Chivian

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

Editat de Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2008

Structura volumului Sustaining Life este riguros organizată pentru a demonstra o teză critică: sănătatea umană nu este un element izolat, ci depinde fundamental de integritatea ecosistemelor globale. Metodologia utilizată de editorii Eric Chivian și Aaron Bernstein depășește abordarea ecologistă clasică, integrând expertiza a peste 100 de cercetători și medici de la Harvard Medical School pentru a analiza corelația dintre degradarea mediului și patologia umană. Materialul este sistematizat în zece capitole care parcurg un traseu logic de la definirea biodiversității la amenințările antropice, culminând cu analize tehnice despre modul în care medicamentele moderne și cercetarea biomedicală depind de specii aflate în prezent în pericol.

Apreciem în mod deosebit includerea celor șapte studii de caz axate pe grupuri de organisme specifice. Acestea nu sunt doar exemple teoretice, ci demonstrații practice ale modului în care potențialul terapeutic al naturii este irosit prin extincție. Vizual, volumul este susținut de peste 200 de ilustrații color care facilitează înțelegerea proceselor ecologice complexe, făcând informația accesibilă atât specialiștilor, cât și publicului larg interesat de politici de sănătate publică.

Recomandăm această lucrare ca o alternativă academică solidă la The Work of Nature pentru cursurile de ecologie aplicată și sănătate publică. În timp ce titlurile similare se concentrează adesea pe funcționarea ecosistemelor în general, Sustaining Life aduce ca avantaj major perspectiva medicală clinică, explicând concret cum pierderea varietății biologice afectează direct siguranța alimentară și controlul bolilor infecțioase. Este o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea costurilor umane ale crizei de mediu, fundamentată pe date din cercetarea de ultimă oră.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195175097
ISBN-10: 0195175093
Pagini: 568
Ilustrații: numerous colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 220 x 284 x 36 mm
Greutate: 2.13 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru studenții la medicină, biologi și factorii de decizie în politici de mediu. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care serviciile ecosistemice susțin viața umană, de la purificarea apei până la descoperirea de noi tratamente oncologice. Este un argument științific imbatabil pentru conservare, prezentat prin prisma propriei noastre supraviețuiri și sănătăți.

Despre autor

Eric Chivian și Aaron Bernstein sunt figuri proeminente la Harvard Medical School. Eric Chivian este fondatorul și fostul director al Center for Health and the Global Environment, fiind co-laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Pace în 1985 (ca parte a International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War). Aaron Bernstein este medic pediatru și cercetător, dedicat studierii impactului schimbărilor de mediu asupra sănătății copiilor. Împreună, au coordonat acest proiect masiv de sinteză științifică sub egida Oxford University Press, reunind voci de prestigiu pentru a fundamenta legătura dintre biologie și medicină.

Descriere

The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, Sustaining Life is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, along with more than 100 leading scientists who contributed to writing and reviewing the book, 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.With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.

Recenzii

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity is a landmark book that lays out the case for the conservation of biodiversity and the multiple benefits it provides. The book is well organized, with beautiful supporting imagery. It is a much needed resource and a call to appreciate and take action to conserve our biological diversity at this critical time.
...fabulous book...lavishly illustrated...both fascinating and frightening
This book...reminds us of just how much we have to lose.
This book represents a landmark addition to our understanding of our ecological heritage, and the importance of preserving it.
A Powerhouse of information on a topic that concerns us all. Highly recommended.
It is a new and comprehensive review of the latest tally of planetary profit and loss...
Sustaining Life is the most complete and powerful argument I have seen for the importance of preserving biodiversity.
It was an exhilarating moment when scientists broke the genome code and showed us the basic building blocks of the human being. Now scientists are showing us how biodiversity works and why it is crucial to saving our planet for our children's children and beyond. This important and compelling book is a blueprint for acting wisely and urgently.
"There is probably no better way to convince anyone still uncertain about the urgent need to preserve biodiversity, which is rapidly diminishing as a result of human activities, than to document its importance to human health and medicine. The authors have done this with great thoroughness and from every possible angle, producing a volume that pairs authority with anecdote and scholarship with passion."--Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1989 Nobel Prize Laureate, former Director of the National Institutes of Health
"As a public health physician, I have been deeply involved for decades in helping political leaders, policy-makers, and the general public understand the relationship between human beings and the environment. Sustaining Life is the best and most comprehensive resource available demonstrating how human health depends on the health of the natural world."--Gro Brundtland, former Director-General of the World Health Organization, former Prime Minister of Norway
"One of the main reasons the world faces a global environmental crisis is the belief that we human beings are somehow separate from the natural world in which we live, and that we can therefore alter its physical, chemical, and biological systems without these alterations having any effect on humanity. Sustaining Life challenges this widely held misconception by demonstrating definitively, with the best and most current scientific information available, that human health depends, to a larger extent than we might imagine, on the health of other species and on the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems."--Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, from the Prologue
This most readable and beautifully illustrated book, with contributions from more than 100 leading scientists from around the world, underlines that the health implications of the loss of biodiversity are every bit as great as those caused by global warming ... The book makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the natural world.
"A powerhouse of information on a topic that concerns of us all. Highly recommended."--Irwin Weintraub, Library Journal Reviews

Notă biografică

Eric Chivian, M.D., is the Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. He shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the lead editor and author of Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War and Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Aaron Bernstein, M.D., is a Research Associate at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and Resident, Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School/Boston University School of Medicine.