Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

530 Pages·2020·12.224 MB·English

by  Samuel Myers (editor), Howard Frumkin (editor)

Planetary HealtH:
Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

Planetary HealtH:
Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves
edited by Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin
Copyright © 2020 Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part
of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing
from the publisher: Island Press, 2000 M St., NW, Suite 650 Washington, DC 20036.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-966-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019955657
All Island Press books are printed on environmentally responsible materials.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Keywords: biodiversity loss, climate change, climate migration, EcoHealth, ecological
economics, energy and health, environmental change, environmental health, food and
nutrition, global health, infectious disease, mental health, noncommunicable diseases,
One Health, planetary boundaries, pollution, regenerative agriculture, sustainability, toxic
exposures, well-being
Dedication
For our children
Sophie and Lucy, Gabe and Amara
With boundless love and hope

ContentS
List of Tables and Boxes xi
Preface: A Note on Covid-19 xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Part 1: Foundations 1
1. An Introduction to Planetary Health (Myers, Frumkin) ........................................3
2. Assembling Planetary Health: Histories of the Future (Dunk, Anderson) ...........17
3. Population, Consumption, Equity, and Rights (Engelman, Bongaarts,
Patterson) ..............................................................................................................37
4. A Changing Planet ................................................................................................71
• Climate Change (Field) .....................................................................................72
• Biogeochemical Cycles (Tilman) .......................................................................75
• Changes in Land Use and Land Cover (DeFries) ..............................................79
• Arable Land and Soil (Montgomery).................................................................85
• Water Scarcity (Gleick) ......................................................................................89
• Biodiversity Loss (Tilman, Frumkin) .................................................................94
• Pollution (Landrigan) ........................................................................................97
Part 2: The Health of Populations 111
5. Food and Nutrition on a Rapidly Changing Planet (Myers) ..............................113
6. Planetary Health and Infectious Disease (Ostfeld, Keesing) ..............................141
7. Global Environmental Change and Noncommunicable Disease Risks
(Frumkin, Haines) ...............................................................................................165
8. Environmental Change, Migration, Conflict, and Health (Risi, Kihato,
Lorenzen, Frumkin) ............................................................................................189