1st Edition
Human Health and Forests A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
Foreword
1. Introduction
Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Part I: Synthetic Analyses
2. Human Health and Forests: An Overview
Colin D. Butler
3. Health, Habitats and Medicinal Plant Use
Anthony B. Cunningham, Patricia Stanley and Sarah Laird
4. The Nutritional Role of Forest Plant Foods for Rural Communities
Barbara Vinceti, Pablo Eyzaguirre and Timothy Johns
5. Wood: The Fuel that Warms You Thrice
Kirk R. Smith
6. Forest Women, Health and Childbearing
Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Richard G. Dudley and Robert Gardner
7. The Gender Agenda and Tropical Forest Diseases
Pascale Allotey, Margaret Gyapong and Carol J. Pierce Colfer
8. Bat-Borne Viral Diseases
Jean Paul Gonzalez, Meriadeg Ar Gouilh, Jean-Marc Reynes and Eric Leroy
9. Deforestation and Malaria: Revisiting the Human Ecology Perspective
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and Junko Yasuoka
Part II: Thematic and Regional Health Slices
10. The Subversive Links between HIV/AIDS and the Forest Sector
Pascal Lopez
11. Forest Disturbance and Health Risks to the Yanomami
Gale Goodwin Gomez
12. Biodiversity, Environment and Health among Rainforest-Dwellers: An Evolutionary Perspective
Alain Froment
13. Sociocultural Dimensions of Diet and Health in Forest-Dwellers' Systems
Edmond Dounias with Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Part III: Health-care Delivery in Forests
14. National Public Health Initiatives that Integrate Traditional Medicine
Cynthia Fowler
15. Approaching Conservation through Health
Robbie Ali
16. Hidden Suffering on the Island of Siberut, West Sumatra
Gerard A. Persoon
17. Conclusions and Ways Forward
Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Afterword
Biography
Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a Senior associate in the Governance Program at CIFOR and a Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Institute for International Food, Agriculture and Development in Ithaca, New York. Her work focuses on strengthening the voices of women and men who live in and near tropical forests. She is co-editor of Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes (2011).
'This book, written for a broad audience, is the first comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa.... a vital addition to the knowledge base of all professionals, academics and students working on forests, natural resources management, health and development world-wide' - Bois & Forets des Tropiques
'Human Health and Forests represents an ambitious attempt to shed some multidisciplinary light on an issue of significant human-environmental importance. Written by an eclectic mix of ethno- ecologists, botanists, physicians, anthropologist, virologists, and many others, this collection synthesizes what is known, and what needs to be known, about the linkages between tropical forest ecology, culture, health, and policy.' - Robert Voeks, Economic Botany
'Undergraduate students should have little difficulty grasping the content, and economic botanists and ethno botanists will find much of value in Human Health and Forests.'- Robert Voeks, Economic Botany
