Since our founding in 1984, Island Press’s mission has been to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. It is in that spirit that we are offering a collection of e-books for free through 2020. Visit https://islandpress.org/free-e-books to explore the available books.
Biodiversity loss has serious implications for human health: it affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.
Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to explore these consequences. Based on a two-day conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, the book opens a dialogue among experts from the fields of public health, biology, epidemiology, botany, ecology, demography, and pharmacology on this vital but often neglected concern.
Read a preview of this book below, and get it for free here.
