Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

Abstract

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Preface: A Note on Covid-19 -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Foundations -- 1. An Introduction to Planetary Health -- 2. Assembling Planetary Health: Histories of the Future -- 3. Population, Consumption, Equity, and Rights -- 4. A Changing Planet -- Part 2: The Health of Populations -- 5. Food and Nutrition on a Rapidly Changing Planet -- 6. Planetary Health and Infectious Disease -- 7. Global Environmental Change and Noncommunicable Disease Risks -- 8. Environmental Change, Migration, Conflict, and Health -- 9. Mental Health on a Changing Planet -- 10. Climate Change and Human Health -- 11. Happiness on a Healthier Planet -- Part 3: Pivoting from Threat to Opportunity -- 12. Energy and Planetary Health -- 13. Urban Places and Planetary Health -- 14. Controlling Toxic Exposures -- 15. A New Economics for Planetary Health -- 16. The Business of Planetary Health: From Economic Theory to Policy and Practice -- Part 4: Saving Ourselves, Saving Our Planet -- 17. Planetary Health Ethics -- 18. A Bright Future for Planetary Health -- Afterword: Coronavirus and Planetary Health -- Index -- About the Editors -- Island Press ǀ Board of Directors.