This page provides details of reports and publications from the COHAB Initiative Secretariat, COHAB Partners and pther organisations. Suggestions for inclusion on this list should be emailed to the Secretariat at webmaster@cohabnet.org.

COHAB 2005, First International Conference on Health and Biodiversity - conference summary report

A summary of the main conclusions of the first COHAB conference, held in Ireland in 2005, which led to the development of the COHAB Initiative.

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity.

"Sustaining Life", due for publication by Oxford university Press in 2008, is the culmination of a major collaborative project, spanning several years, spearheaded by Dr. Eric Chivian and Dr. Aaron Bernstein at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Dr. Chivian was one of the key people behind the first COHAB conference in Ireland in 2005, and the work on the Sustaining Life project has been an important inspiration and driver for setting up the COHAB Initiaitve.

The book includes contributions from over 100 leading scientists, exploring the ways in which biodiversity and ecosystem services sustain life on Earth, and highlighting the risks which biodiversity loss poses to human health and development. Further details of the book will be posted here upon publication. Click here to see a promotional flyer about the book. See the website of the Center for Health and the Global Environment to learn more.