New directions in conservation medicine : applied cases of ecological health / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, and Peter Daszak.
In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press, Inc.,
[2012]
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| Summary: | In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking within the health and ecological sciences and the better understanding of the complexity within these various fields of knowledge. Conservation medicine was born from the cross fertilization of ideas generated by this new transdisciplinary design. It examines the links among changes in climate, habit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 639 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199909056 0199909059 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from electronic title page (ebrary, viewed on August 31, 2015). |