| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map |
| Series |
Wetlands: ecology, conservation and management, 1875-127X ; volume 5 |
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Wetlands ecology, conservation and management ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Wetlands as settings for human health, the benefits and the paradox / C. Max Finalyson and Pierre Horwitz -- Public health perspectives on water systems and ecology / Angus Cook and Peter Speldewinde -- Wetlands and people's well-being: Basic needs, food security and medicinal properties / Anthony B. Cunningham -- Wetlands as sites of exposure to water-borne infectious diseases / Bonnie T. Derne, Philip Weinstein and Collee L. Lau -- Ecosystem approaches to human exposure to pollutants and toxicants in wetlands: Examples, dilemmas and alternatives / Pierre Horwitz and Anne Roiko -- Healthy wetlands, healthy people: Mosquito borne disease / Scott Carver [and 3 others] -- Wetlands, livelihoods and human health / Matthew P. McCartney, Lisa-Maria Rebelo and Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu -- Wetlands and health: How do urban wetlands contribute to community well-being? / May Carter -- Natural disasters, health and wetlands: A Pacific small island developing state perspective / Aaron P. Jenkins and Stacy Jupiter -- Interventions required to enhance wetlands as settings for human well-being / Pierre Horwitz, C. Max Finalyson and Ritesh Kumar -- Human health and the wise use of wetlands, guidance in an international policy setting / C. Max Finalyson and Pierre Horwitz -- A synthesis: Wetlands as settings for human health / C. Max Finalyson, Pierre Horwitz and Philip Weinstein |
| Summary |
"The book addresses the interactions between wetlands and human health and well-being. A key feature is the linking of ecology-health and the targeting of practitioners and researchers. The environmental health problems of the 21st Century cannot be addressed by the traditional tools of ecologists or epidemiologists working in their respective disciplinary silos; this is clear from the emergence and re-emergence of public health and human well-being problems such as cholera pandemics, mosquito borne disease, and episodic events and disasters (e.g. hurricanes). To tackle these problems requires genuine cross-disciplinary collaboration; a key finding of the recently concluded Millennium Ecosystem Assessment when looking at human well-being and ecosystem health. This book brings the disciplines of ecology and health sciences closer to such a synthesis for researchers, teachers and policy makers interested in or needing information to manage wetlands and human health and well-being issues."--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
levenswetenschappen |
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life sciences |
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geneeskunde |
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medicine |
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volksgezondheid |
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public health |
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milieu |
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environment |
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water |
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Environmental Sciences (General) |
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Milieuwetenschappen (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL platform, viewed March 15, 2016) |
| Subject |
Wetlands -- Health aspects
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Wetland management -- Health aspects
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Water quality management -- Health aspects
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Public health -- Environmental aspects
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Life sciences.
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Environmental sciences.
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Medicine.
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Medicine
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Biological Science Disciplines
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environmental sciences.
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medicines (material)
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biological sciences.
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medicine (discipline)
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Public health -- Environmental aspects
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Water quality management -- Health aspects
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finlayson, C. M. (C. Max), editor.
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Horwitz, Pierre, editor
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Weinstein, Philip, editor
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| ISBN |
9789401796095 |
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9401796092 |
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