Human Health and Forests : A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy

ISBN-13: 9781844075324 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 374 str.

Carol J. Pierce Colfer

Opis

Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa.

Spis treści

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 

O autorze

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).