New Directions in Conservation Medicine

Applied Cases of Ecological Health
Herausgeber: Aguirre, A Alonso; Daszak, Peter; Ostfeld, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

New Directions of Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health covers topics from emerging diseases and toxicants to the EcoHealth/One Health explosion. It challenges the notion that human health is an isolated concern removed from the bounds of ecology and species interactions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 184mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1296g
• ISBN-13: 9780199731473
• ISBN-10: 0199731470
• Artikelnr.: 34554507

Autorenporträt

Alonso Aguirre is Executive Director of the Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies Program based at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, and Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy in George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He cofounded the emerging discipline of Conservation Medicine and has over 20 years of experience in conservation of biodiversity wildlife medicine and management in over 23 countries. Rick Ostfeld is Senior Scientist and Animal Ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York. Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust). He is a leader in the field of conservation medicine and a respected disease ecologist.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* (A. Alonso Aguirre and Sara E. Howard)
* Part I: Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
* 1. Conservation Medicine: Ontogeny of an Emerging Discipline
* A. Alonso Aguirre, G.M. Tabor and Richard S. Ostfeld
* 2. EcoHealth: Creating a Truly a Global Transdiscipline
* Bruce A. Wilcox, Pierre Horwitz, and A. Alonso Aguirre
* 3. One Health, One Medicine
* Laura H. Kahn, Thomas P. Monath, Bob H. Bokma, Paul Gibbs, A. Alonso
Aguirre
* 4. Biodiversity and Human Health
* Aaron Bernstein
* 5. An Ecosystem Service of Biodiversity - The Protection of Human
Health Against Infectious Disease
* Felicia Keesing and Richard S. Ostfeld
* 6. Parasite Conservation, Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Health
* Andres Gomez, Elizabeth Nichols and Susan L. Perkins
* 7. Stress and Immunosuppression as Factors in the Decline and
Extinction of Populations: The Concepts, the Evidence and the
Challenges
* Heribert Hofer and Marion L. East
* Part II: Anthropogenic Change and Conservation Medicine
* 8. Predicted Impacts of Climate on Emerging Diseases: A Model for
Global Change
* Raina K. Plowright, Paul C. Cross, Gary M. Tabor, Emily Almberg,
Leslie Bienen, and Peter Hudson
* 9. Wildlife Health in a Changing North: A Model for Global
Environmental Change
* Morten Tryland, Susan Kutz and Patricia Curry
* 10. Habitat Fragmentation and Infectious Disease Ecology
* Gerardo Suzán, Fernando Esponda, Roberto Carrasco-Hernández, A.
Alonso Aguirre
* 11. Wildlife Trade and the Spread of Disease
* Katherine F. Smith, Lisa M. Schloegel, and Gail E. Rosen
* 12. Bushmeat and Infectious Disease Emergence
* Matthew LeBreton, Brian L. Pike, Karen E. Saylors, Joseph L. Diffo,
Joseph N. Fair, Anne W. Rimoin, Nancy Ortiz, Cyrille F. Djoko, Ubald
Tamoufe, Nathan D. Wolfe
* 13. Human Migration, Border Controls and Infectious Disease Emergence
* Anne M. Alexander, David C. Finnoff and Jason F. Shogren
* Part III: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Conservation Medicine
* 14. Are Bats Exceptional Viral Reservoirs?
* Kevin J. Olival, Jonathan H. Epstein, Lin-Fa Wang, Hume E. Field and
Peter Daszak
* 15. SARS: A Case Study for Factors Driving Disease Emergence
* Wolfgang Preiser
* 16. H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Breaking the Rules in
Disease Emergence
* Thijs Kuiken and Timm Harder
* 17. Bartonellosis: An Emerging Disease of Humans, Domestic Animals
and Wildlife
* Ricardo G. Maggi, Craig A. Harms, Edward B. Breitschwerdt
* 18. Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis Infections in Marine
Mammals
* Jacques Godfroid, Ingebjørg Nymo, Morten Tryland, Axel Cloeckaert,
Thierry Jauniaux, Adrian M. Whatmore, Edgardo Moreno, Geoffrey Foster
* 19. Infectious Cancers in Wildlife
* Hamish McCallum and Menna Jones
* 20. From Protozoan Infection in Monarch Butterflies to Colony
Collapse Disorder in Bees: Are Emerging Infectious Diseases
Proliferating in the Invertebrate World?
* Rebecca Bartel and Sonia Altizer
* 21. Fungal Diseases in Neotropical Forests Disturbed by Humans
* Julieta Benitez-Malvido
* 22. Emerging Infectious Diseases in Fisheries and Aquaculture
* E. Scott Weber
* 23. Southern Sea Otters: Sentinels of Land-Sea Pathogens and
Pollutants
* David A. Jessup and Melissa A. Miller
* Part IV: Ecotoxicology and Conservation Medicine
* 24. Ecotoxicology: Bridging Wildlife, Humans and Ecosystems
* Jeffrey M. Levengood and Val R. Beasley
* 25. Wildlife Toxicology: Environmental Contaminants and their
National and International Regulation
* K. Christiana Grim, Anne Fairbrother, Barnett A. Rattner
* 26. Marine Biotoxins: Emergence of Harmful Algal Blooms as Health
Threats to Marine Wildlife
* Spencer E. Fire, Frances M. Van Dolah
* 27. Beluga from the St Lawrence Estuary: A Case Study of Cancer and
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
* Daniel Martineau
* Part V: Place Based Conservation Medicine
* 28. Sense and Serendipity: Conservation and Management of Bison in
Canada
* Margo J. Pybus and Todd K. Shury
* 29. Pathogens, Parks and People: The Role of Bovine Tuberculosis in
South African Conservation
* Claire Geoghegan
* 30. Disease Ecology and Conservation of Ungulates, Wild Rabbits and
the Iberian Lynx in the Mediterranean Forest
* Fernando Martinez, Guillermo Lopez and Christian Gortazar
* 31. The Kibale EcoHealth Project: Exploring the Connections among
Human Health, Animal Health, and Landscape Dynamics in Western Uganda
* Tony L. Goldberg, Sarah B. Paige and Colin A. Chapman
* 32. Conservation Medicine in Brazil: Case Studies of Ecological
Health in Practice
* Paulo Rogerio Mangini, Rodrigo Silva Pinto Jorge, Marcelo Renan de
Deus Santos, Alessandra Nava, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Verona, Maria
Fernanda Vianna Marvulo, Jean Carlos Ramos Silva
* 33. Linking Conservation of Biodiversity and Culture with Sustainable
Health and Wellness: The Itzama Model and Global Implications for
Healing Across Cultures
* Todd J. Pesek, Victor Cal, Kevin Knight, John Arnason
* 34. Biodiversity and Human Health: Using Plants and Traditional
Ethnomedical Knowledge to Improve Public Health and Conservation
Programs in Micronesia
* Michael J. Balick, Katherine Herrera, Francisca Sohl, Wayne Law,
Roberta Lee and William C. Raynor
* Part VI: Applied techniques Of Conservation Medicine
* 35. Human Health in the Biodiversity Hotspots: Applications of
Geographic Information System Technology and Implications for
Conservation
* Larry J. Gorenflo
* 36. Determining when Parasites of Amphibians are Conservation Threats
to their Hosts: Methods and Perspectives
* Trent W. J. Garner, Cheryl J. Briggs, Jon Bielby and Matthew C.
Fisher
* 37. Strategies for Wildlife Disease Surveillance
* Jonathan M. Sleeman, Christopher J. Brand, Scott D. Wright
* 38. Wildlife Health Monitoring in North America: From Sentinel
Species to Public Policy
* Michelle M. Willette, Julia B. Ponder, Dave L. McRuer, Edward E.
Clark, Jr.
* 39. The Establishment of Serum Banks for Eco-Epidemiological
Investigations of Infectious Diseases in Marine Mammals
* A. Alonso Aguirre, Melinda K. Rostal, Thomas J. Keefe
* 40. Sorta Situ: The New Reality of Management Conditions for Wildlife
Populations in the Absence of 'Wild' Spaces
* Barbara A. Wolfe, Roberto F. Aguilar, A. Alonso Aguirre, Glenn H.
Olsen, Evan S. Blumer
* 41. Modeling Population Viability and Extinction Risk in the Presence
of Parasitism
* Patrick Foley and Janet E. Foley
* 42. Using Mathematical Models in a Unified Approach to Predicting the
Next Emerging Infectious Disease
* Tiffany L. Bogich, Kevin J. Olival, Parviez R. Hosseini, Sebastian
Funk, Ilana L. Brito, Jonathan H. Epstein, John S. Brownstein, Damien
O. Joly, Marc A. Levy, Kate E. Jones, Stephen S. Morse, A. Alonso
Aguirre, William B. Karesh, Jonna AK Mazet, and Peter Daszak
* Index