Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change / edited by Melissa R. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N. Irvine, Aletta Bonn.
2019
QH541.15.B56
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Title
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change / edited by Melissa R. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N. Irvine, Aletta Bonn.
ISBN
9783030023188 (electronic book)
3030023184 (electronic book)
9783030023171
3030023176
3030023184 (electronic book)
9783030023171
3030023176
Published
Cham : Springer, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 481 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-02
Call Number
QH541.15.B56
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.95
613.1
613.1
Summary
This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversitys contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning - and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This transdisciplinary book will attract a wide audience interested in biodiversity, ecology, resource management, public health, psychology, urban planning, and landscape architecture. The emphasis is on multiple human health benefits from biodiversity - in particular with respect to the increasing challenge of climate change. This makes the book unique to other books that focus either on biodiversity and physical health or natural environments and mental wellbeing. The book is written as a definitive 'go-to book for those who are new to the field of biodiversity and health.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Biodiversity and physical health
Section 2: Biodiversity and mental wellbeing
Section 3: Biodiversity and social wellbeing
Section 4: Implications of the biodiversity and health relationship
Section 5: Planning and managing urban green spaces for biodiversity and health in a changing climate.
Section 1: Biodiversity and physical health
Section 2: Biodiversity and mental wellbeing
Section 3: Biodiversity and social wellbeing
Section 4: Implications of the biodiversity and health relationship
Section 5: Planning and managing urban green spaces for biodiversity and health in a changing climate.