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451© The Author(s) 2019 M. R. Marselle et al. (eds.), Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8_20 Chapter 20 Biodiversity and  Health in  the  Face of  Climate Change: Perspectives for  Science, Policy and  Practice Melissa  R.  Marselle, Jutta  Stadler, Horst  Korn, Katherine  N.  Irvine, and  Aletta  Bonn Abstract Increases in non-communicable diseases, biodiversity loss and climate change are among the greatest global challenges society is facing today. At the same time, biodiverse natural environments can buffer the negative effects of climate change to society and support human health. Contributions in this volume demon- strate the growing interest in the impact of biodiversity on human health and well- being in the face  of climate change. The chapters in this volume present and critically review the growing body of literature on the associations of biodiversity and human health, with mounting evidence of positive effects for physical health and well- being. In this concluding chapter, we summarise the key outcomes of the chapters in this book. Synthesising the main results with a link to current policy, we develop M. R. Marselle (*) Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research  – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany e-mail: melissa.marselle@ufz.de J. Stadler · H. Korn Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Isle of Vilm, Putbus, Germany e-mail: jutta.stadler@bfn.de; horst.korn@bfn.de K. N. Irvine Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Research Group, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK e-mail: katherine.irvine@hutton.ac.uk A. Bonn Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research  – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany e-mail: aletta.bonn@ufz.de