Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

xxiii, 542 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm

"Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity; United Nations Development Programme; United Nations Environment Programme; IUCN--The World Conservation Union."

What is biodiversity? / Stuart I. Pimm ... [et al.] -- How is biodiversity threatened by human activity? / Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein -- Ecosystem services / Jerry Melillo, Osvaldo Sala -- Medicines from nature / David J. Newman ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity and biomedical research / Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein, Joshua P. Rosenthal -- Threatened groups of organisms valuable to medicine / Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein -- Ecosystem disturbance, biodiversity loss, and human infectious disease / David H. Moyneux ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity and food production / Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig -- Genetically modified foods and organic farming / Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein -- What individuals can do to help conserve biodiversity / Jeffrey A. McNeely, Eleanor Sterling, Kalemani Jo Mulongoy -- Appendix A: Co-sponsors of sustaining life: how human health depends on biodiverity -- Appendix B: Treaties, conventions, and intergovernmental organizations for the conservation of biodiversity -- Appendix C: Nongovernmental organizations working to conserve biodiversity.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-514) and index.