Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity
2008
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'Sustaining Life' presents a 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 on the earth's disappearing biodiversity.
Main title:
Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Collation:
xxiii, 542 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, port. ; 29 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780195175097 (hbk)
Dewey class:
333.9516
Language:
English
BRN:
1557049