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  • Water, Food and Human Health in the Galapagos, Ecuador

    "A Little World Within Itself"

    Edited by Amanda L. Thompson, Valeria Ochoa-Herrera, Enrique Teran ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this book, we bring together interdisciplinary scholars and clinicians in medicine, public health, anthropology, nutrition, environmental sciences, and geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the Ministry of Health and the Hospital Oskar Jandl. Together, these authors provide a comprehensive description of the factors shaping water ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

    Edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Vera ...
    Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication*. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests* comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse ... Read more

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  • Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos

    Edited by Amelie G. Ramirez, Edward J. Trapido ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference, held in February 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, and hosted by the Mays Cancer Center and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio.Latinos – the largest, youngest, and fastest-growing minority group in the United States ... Read more

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  • Capybara

    Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species

    Edited by José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species) is found from the Panama Canal to the north of Argentina on the east of the Andes. Chile is the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • The Xavante in Transition

    Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil

    by Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano, Ricardo V. Santos, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. ...
    Series series Human-Environment Interactions
    The Xavánte in Transition presents a diachronic view of the long and complex interaction between the Xavánte, an indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, and the surrounding nation, documenting the effects of this interaction on Xavánte health, ecology, and biology.A powerful example of how a small-scale society, buffeted by political and economic forces at the national level and beyond, ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Ecologies and Politics of Health

    Edited by Brian King, Kelley A. Crews ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and infrastructure. Yet while there is emerging interest within the natural and social sciences on the social and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases

    The Concept and Examples of a One Health Approach

    Edited by John S. Mackenzie, Martyn Jeggo, Peter Daszak, Juergen A. Richt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. Achieving harmonized approaches for disease detection and prevention is difficult because traditional boundaries of medical and veterinary practice must be crossed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case—then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology

    Edited by Molly K. Zuckerman, Debra L. Martin ...
    Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in anthropology in the 1960s, matured in the 1980s, and is now one of the dominant paradigms in ... Read more

    $120.00 USD

  • Infectious Disease in Aquaculture

    Prevention and Control

    Edited by B Austin ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
    With an ever increasing demand for seafood that cannot be met by capture fisheries alone, growing pressure is being placed on aquaculture production. However, infectious diseases are a major constraint. Infectious disease in aquaculture: prevention and control brings together a wealth of recent research on this problem and its effective management.Part one considers the innate and adaptive immune ... Read more

    $251.99 USD

  • Sustainability of Skipjack Tuna Fishery in Brazil

    by Lauro A. Saint Pastous Madureira, Cassiano Monteiro-Neto ...
    Sustainability of Skipjack tuna fishing in Brazil is the result of a research carried out by FUNBIO / RJ together with several researchers and professionals for the Marine and Fishing Research Support Project in Rio de Janeiro. The work is distributed in four major thematic units and organized in 13 chapters that dialogue in an interdisciplinary way, but with the same centralizing theme. There ... Read more

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  • Conservation Medicine

    Ecological Health in Practice

    Edited by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary M. Tabor, Carol House, Mary C. Pearl ...
    Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health. Work in the biomedical and veterinary sciences is now being folded into conservation biology; to explore the connections between animal and human health; trace the environmental sources of pathogens and pollutants; develop an understanding of the ecological causes of ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Genetic Control of Malaria and Dengue

    by Zach N. Adelman ...
    Genetic Control of Malaria and Dengue focuses on the knowledge, technology, regulation and ethics of using genetically modified mosquitoes to interrupt the transmission of important vector-borne diseases including Malaria. It contains coverage of the current state of knowledge of vector-borne diseases and how they are currently controlled; vaccine, drug and insecticide development; various ... Read more

    $80.99 USD