New Directions in Conservation Medicine

Applied Cases of Ecological Health
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-973147-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1428 g

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, habitat quality, and land use; emergence and re-emergence of infectious agents, parasites and environmental contaminants; and maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions
as they sustain the health of plant and animal communities including humans.

During the past ten years, new tools and institutional initiatives for assessing and monitoring ecological health concerns have emerged: landscape epidemiology, disease ecological modeling and web-based analytics. New types of integrated ecological health assessment are being deployed; these efforts incorporate environmental indicator studies with specific biomedical diagnostic tools. Other innovations include the development of non-invasive physiological and behavioral monitoring techniques;
the adaptation of modern molecular biological and biomedical techniques; the design of population level disease monitoring strategies; the creation of ecosystem-based health and sentinel species surveillance approaches; and the adaptation of health monitoring systems for appropriate developing country
situations. New Directions of Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health addresses these issues with relevant case studies and detailed applied examples. New Directions of Conservation Medicine challenges the notion that human health is an isolated concern removed from the bounds of ecology and species interactions. Human health, animal health, and ecosystem health are moving closer together and at some point, it will be inconceivable that there was ever a clear
division.

Zielgruppe

This book can serve as a textbook or reference to professors, undergraduate students, graduate students and professionals in the fields of conservation biology, ecology, veterinary medicine, human medicine, public health, sociobiology, public policy, eco-economics, natural resources management, ecosystem health, and others in related fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aguirre, A Alonso

Ostfeld, Richard

Daszak, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Soziobiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Aguirre, A Alonso
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.

Ostfeld, Richard
Rick Ostfeld is Senior Scientist and Animal Ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.

Daszak, Peter
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.