practice medicine ecological twenty-first

books:

Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
Carol House, Mary C. Pearl

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health. Work in the biomedical and veterinary sciences is now being folded into conservation biology; to explore the connections between animal and human health; trace the environmental sources of pathogens and pollutants; develop an understanding of the ecological causes of changes in human and animal health; and ...

Conservation for the Twenty-first Century

Oxford University Press, USA, 1989

In this stimulating overview, international experts offer vital information for anticipating and meeting the environmental and ecological challenges of the next century. Representing a diverse range of specialties, the contributors examine such key topics as species extinction, ecosystem conservation and management, strategies for national parks, planning and management programs, legislative initiatives, and conservation in the developing ...