Biodiversity and health: linking life, ecosystems and societies

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Brief History on the Links between Health and Biodiversity --
1.1. Introduction --
1.2. Millennium Development Goals for Ecosystem Services --
1.3. From environmental health to "one health" --
1.4. Formerly recognized links --
ch. 2 Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity and Infectious Diseases --
2.1. Introduction --
2.2. Distribution of infectious diseases: links to biological diversity and cultural diversity --
2.3. Origins of parasitic and infectious diseases in non-human primates --
2.4. first epidemiological transition: "Out of Africa" human migration --
2.5. Genetic diversity and human migration --
2.6. Animal domestication --
2.7. beginning of globalization --
2.8. Conclusion --
ch. 3 Loss of Biological Diversity and Emergence of Infectious Diseases --
3.1. Introduction --
3.2. Epidemiology of infectious diseases --
3.3. Reservoirs of zoonotic infectious diseases --
3.4. Emerging infectious diseases and the biodiversity crisis --
3.5. Mechanisms of emergence through habitat modification --
3.6. Mechanisms of emergence through community modification --
3.7. Genetic diversity of hosts and transmission of infectious diseases --
3.8. Conclusion --
ch. 4 Loss of Biodiversity and Emergence of Non-infectious Diseases --
4.1. Introduction --
4.2. Diversity, host parasite co-evolution and the immune system --
4.3. hygiene hypothesis and the parasitic diversity crisis --
4.4. "farm" hypothesis: biological diversity and allergies --
4.5. Conclusion: towards an evolving medicine --
ch. 5 Anthropogenic Stress --
5.1. Introduction: a planet dominated by humans and their animals --
5.2. Impact of urbanization and road network --
5.3. Physiology of stress and health --
5.4. Effects of phytosanitation and biocides --
5.5. Endocrine disrupters --
5.6. Antibiotics --
5.7. Conclusion --
ch. 6 Biodiversity Response --
6.1. Introduction: how life has adapted --
6.2. Anthropization and synanthropy --
6.3. Resistance to insecticides --
6.4. Resistance to genetically modified plants --
6.5. Resistance to antiparasitic drugs: the example of artemisinin --
6.6. Resistance to antibiotics --
6.7. Evolution of virulence --
6.8. New biotechnologies and evolution of resistance: Wolbachia, CRISPR-Cas 9 --
6.9. Ecological and evolutionary engineering --
6.9.1. Management of resistance to Bt transgenic plants --
6.9.2. Managing antimicrobial resistance --
6.9.3. CRISPR-Cas9 technologies --
6.10. Conclusion --
ch. 7 Animal and Human Pharmacopoeias --
7.1. Introduction --
7.2. diversity of plant secondary metabolites --
7.3. Origin of self-medication in animals and hominids --
7.4. Ethnobotany and traditional medicine --
7.5. Bioprospecting, biopiracy and patents --
7.6. Conservation biology and traditional pharmacopoeia --
7.7. Loss of biodiversity and knowledge --
7.8. Conclusion --
ch. 8 Well-being --
8.1. Introduction --
8.2. Objectivity and subjectivity of well-being --
8.3. Psychology and the natural environment --
8.4. Evolutionary psychology and well-being --
8.5. Theories of habitat and visual refuge, topophilia and biophilia --
8.6. Implications and applications of biophilia --
8.7. Traditional knowledge and well-being --
8.8. Conclusion --
ch. 9 Ecosystem Services for Health and Biodiversity --
9.1. Introduction --
9.2. Environmental impacts and well-being --
9.3. Health of ecosystems --
9.4. Ecosystem services --
9.5. Ecosystem services and health --
9.6. Ecosystem disservices and health --
9.7. Compromise between services, economic development and health --
9.8. Conclusion --
ch. 10 Biodiversity and Health Scenarios --
10.1. Introduction --
10.2. Prospects and global scenarios --
10.2.1. Demography --
10.2.2. Agriculture and livestock --
10.2.3. Climate change --
10.2.4. Biodiversity --
10.2.5. Human health --
10.2.6. Animal health --
10.3. Worst-case scenarios --
10.3.1. Thresholds and tipping points, planetary limits --
10.3.2. Collapse --
10.4. Global risks and "preparedness" for the worst --
10.5. Towards integrated scenarios --
10.6. Observations and observatories --
10.7. Experts and representation of knowledge --
10.8. Conclusion: scenarios for research and governance --
ch. 11 Governance of Biodiversity and Health --
11.1. Introduction --
11.2. International governance of biodiversity and health --
11.3. Regional challenges --
11.4. Implementation at the national level --
ch. 12 Ethics, Values and Responsibilities --
12.1. Introduction --
12.2. Pluralism of scientific approaches --
12.3. Some definitions --
12.4. Humanist and human health ethics --
12.5. Animal and animal health ethics --
12.6. Environmental ethics --
12.7. Applied and global environmental ethics --
12.8. Ethics of foresight and scenarios --
12.9. Confronting the ethics network --
12.10. Necessity of pluralism of ethics --
12.11. Conclusion --
ch. 13 Role of Law, Justice and Scientific Knowledge in Health and Biodiversity --
13.1. Introduction --
13.2. Complexity, scientific knowledge and informing political decisions --
13.3. For a law that is in line with reality: difficulty in implementing the principles of transparency, accountability and participation --
13.4. Scientific knowledge used by citizens for environmental justice --
13.5. Human rights and the right to science? Environmental and health challenges.