Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan. - Oxford ;;New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 - xxiii, 542 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-514) and index.

From the Publisher: The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or econom

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Biodiversity.;Environmental health.

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