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Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Environmental health.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007020609.html

9780195175097 (cloth : alk. paper)

0195175093 (cloth : alk. paper)

xxiii, 542 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.

What is biodiversity? -- How is biodiversity threatened by human activity? -- Ecosystem services -- Medicines from nature -- Biodiversity and biomedical research -- Threatened groups of organisms valuable to medicine -- Ecosystem disturbance, biodiversity loss, and human infectious disease -- Biodiversity and food production -- Genetically modified foods and organic farming -- What individuals can do to help conserve biodiversity -- Treaties, conventions, and intergovernmental organizations for the conservation of biodiversity -- Nongovernmental organizations working to conserve biodiversity.

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