Biodiversity and Human Health Library

BIODIVERSITY LIBRARY

Table of Contents

Resources on this site
- Glossary of Common Terms
- Biodiveristy and Human Health online slide show discusses the main impacts of biodiversity loss and ideas for action.
- The Value of Forests (PDF*), a report from the Sierra Club
Other resources on the Web
- The IUCN's Biodiversity Policy Coordination Division
- Biodiversity and Conservation online hypertext book by Professor Peter Bryant, UC Irvine
- The Environmental News Network offers an excellent daily news service.
- Planet Ark offers a searchable database of environmental and health related news stories.
- The CDC's online Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal.
- American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation website.
- Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment.
  - Biodiversity: Its Importance to Human Health (PDF*). A Project of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, under the Auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Glossary of Common Terms

If you encounter a term you don't know, see our Ecology Glossary.

If you don't find the term you're seeking there, try searching at Dictionary.com.

"Seeing the Forests for Their Green: Economic Benefits of Forest Protection, Recreation, and Restoration" An economic report written by the respected environmental lawfirm ECONorthwest for the Sierra Club.

Over one hundred years ago America embarked on an enlightened conservation mission. After witnessing decades of reckless destruction of the nation's valuable forests and watersheds, national leaders established the first Forest Pre s e rves in 1891. The goal, as Gifford Pinchot explained in a Forest Service booklet in 1907, was "...to save the timber for the use of the people, and to hold the mountain forests as great sponges to give out steady flows of water for use in the fertile valleys below."

Biodiversity and Conservation Hypertext Book

Biodiversity and Conservation is an online hypertext book that draws together resources from all over the Web to present a comprehensive and highly informative introduction to the topic of biodiversity.

Environmental News Network

The ENN website has many resources for you to browse, daily news coverage of environmental topics, and a free subscription service that provides a once-daily e-journal of hot stories in the news.