Bookedited by Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin.
Summary: Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems--the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate--are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more.
Contents:
Front Cover
About Island Press
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Preface: A Note on Covid-19
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Foundations
1. An Introduction to Planetary Health
2. Assembling Planetary Health: Histories of the Future
3. Population, Consumption, Equity, and Rights
4. A Changing Planet
Part 2: The Health of Populations
5. Food and Nutrition on a Rapidly Changing Planet
6. Planetary Health and Infectious Disease
7. Global Environmental Change and Noncommunicable Disease Risks
8. Environmental Change, Migration, Conflict, and Health
9. Mental Health on a Changing Planet
10. Climate Change and Human Health
11. Happiness on a Healthier Planet
Part 3: Pivoting from Threat to Opportunity
12. Energy and Planetary Health
13. Urban Places and Planetary Health
14. Controlling Toxic Exposures
15. A New Economics for Planetary Health
16. The Business of Planetary Health: From Economic Theory to Policy and Practice
Part 4: Saving Ourselves, Saving Our Planet
17. Planetary Health Ethics
18. A Bright Future for Planetary Health
Afterword: Coronavirus and Planetary Health
Index
About the Editors
Island Press Board of Directors.