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  • Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Infectious Diseases in Southeast Asia

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book pursues a multidisciplinary approach in order to evaluate the socio-ecological dimensions of infectious diseases in Southeast Asia. It includes 18 chapters written by respected researchers in the fields of history, sociology, ecology, epidemiology, veterinary sciences, medicine and the environmental sciences on six major topics: (1) Infectious diseases and societies, (2) Health, ... Read more

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  • Parasite Biodiversity

    This comprehensive, groundbreaking book on the biodiversity of parasites offers a clear and accessible explanation of how parasite biodiversity provides insight into the history and biogeography of other organisms, the structure of ecosystems, and the processes that lead to the diversification of life. ... Read more

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  • Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change

    Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book considers the principle of ‘sustainable development’ which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis. A new mode of thinking and positioning the ecological imperative is the major input of this volume. The prism of co-viability is not the economics of political agencies that carry the ideology of the dominant/conventional economic schools, but rather an opening of innovation ... Read more

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  • Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change

    Vol. 2: Coviability Questioned by a Diversity of Situations

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations. As readers will discover, the coviability of social and ecological systems is based on the contradiction between humanity, which adopts finalized objectives, and the biosphere, which refers ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Biodiversity and Health

    Linking Life, Ecosystems and Societies

    There is a gap between the ecology of health and the concepts supported by international initiatives such as EcoHealth, One Health or Planetary Health; a gap which this book aims to fill. Global change is accelerated by problems of growing population, industrialization and geopolitics, and the world's biodiversity is suffering as a result, which impacts both humans and animals. However, ... Read more

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  • Parasite Diversity and Diversification

    Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics

    The development of molecular tools has dramatically increased our knowledge of parasite diversity and the vectors that transmit them. From viruses and protists to arthropods and helminths, each branch of the Tree of Life offers an insight into significant, yet cryptic, biodiversity. Alongside this, the studies of host-parasite interactions and parasitism have influenced many scientific disciplines ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia

    Challenges in a Changing Environment

    Series series Earthscan Conservation and Development
    Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. These changes characterize the recent period and can be illustrated by the effects of the Green Revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the globalization of trade and increasing agronomic intensification over the past decade.Biodiversity Conservation ... Read more

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  • New Frontiers of Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Molecular epidemiology has recently broaden its focuses due to the development of molecular tools but also by incorporating advances of other fields such as mathematical epidemiology, molecular ecology, population genetics and evolution. Facing new risks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that are threats for humans and their livestock, the objectives of molecular epidemiology include ... Read more

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  • Zoonoses

    The ties that bind humans to animals

    Series series Enjeux sciences
    This book explores zoonoses — the diseases exchanged between animals and humans. Within its pages, the authors describe the nature and transmission of zoonoses, discuss the diseases of greatest concern, detail different protective measures, and examine the factors responsible for zoonosis emergence and evolution. ... Read more

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  • Emergence of infectious diseases

    Risks and issues for societies

    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant emergence of infectious diseases? What are the related challenges?In five chapters, experts from different scientific fields analyse the ecological, social, institutional and ... Read more

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  • Emergence of infectious diseases

    Risks and issues for societies

    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant emergence of infectious diseases? What are the related challenges?In five chapters, experts from different scientific fields analyse the ecological, social, institutional and ... Read more

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