Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy

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Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. 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.
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Overview

Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. 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.
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'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

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Carol J. Pierce Colfer is Principal Scientist in the Governance Program at CIFOR, in Bogor, Indonesia, where her work aims to improve the lives of people living in and near forests. She is co-editor of The Politics of Decentralization (2005).
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Table of Contents

List of boxes, figures and tables ix

Foreword xiii

Notes on authors xv

Acknowledgements xix

List of acronyms and abbreviations xxi

1 Introduction Carol J. Pierce Colfer 1

Part I Synthetic Analyses

2 Human Health and Forests: An Overview Colin D. Butler 13

3 Health, Habitats and Medicinal Plant Use Anthony B. Cunningham Patricia Shanley Sarah Laird 35

4 The Nutritional Role of Forest Plant Foods for Rural Communities Barbara Vinceti Pablo Eyzaguirre Timothy Johns 63

5 Wood: The Fuel that Warms You Thrice Kirk R. Smith 97

6 Forest Women, Health and Childbearing Carol J. Pierce Colfer Richard G. Dudley Robert Gardner 113

7 The Gender Agenda and Tropical Forest Diseases Pascale Allotey Margaret Gyapong Carol J. Pierce Colfer 135

8 Bat-Borne Viral Diseases Jean Paul Gonzalez Meriadeg Ar Gouilh Jean-Marc Reynes Eric Leroy 161

9 Deforestation and Malaria: Revisiting the Human Ecology Perspective Subhrendu K. Pattanayak Junko Yasuoka 197

Part II Thematic and Regional Health Slices

10 The Subversive Links between HIV/AIDS and the Forest Sector Pascal Lopez 221

11 Forest Disturbance and Health Risks to the Yanomami Gale Goodwin Gomez 239

12 Biodiversity, Environment and Health among Rainforest-Dwellers: An Evolutionary Perspective Alain Froment 259

13 Sociocultural Dimensions of Diet and Health in Forest-Dwellers' Systems Edmond Dounias Carol J. Pierce Colfer 275

Part III Health-Care Delivery in Forests

14 National Public Health Initiatives that Integrate Traditional Medicine Cynthia Fowler 295

15 Approaching Conservation through Health Robbie Ali 317

16 Hidden Suffering on the Island of Siberut, West Sumatra Gerard A. Persoon 333

17Conclusions and Ways Forward Carol J. Pierce Colfer 347

Afterword 359

Index 363

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