Ecosystems Society And Health

Author : Lars K. Hallström
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773583122

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Ecosystems, Society, and Health by Lars K. Hallström Pdf

The modern world has created complex systems that have interrelated concerns. Ecosystems, Society, and Health presents new perspectives on how the challenges relating to these concerns must be examined, not as disparate political narratives, but as dynamic transformational stories that demand integrative systems of research, analysis, practice, and action. Struggles over healthy watersheds, diseases associated with environmental change, and public health impacts of unsafe food exemplify the demand for integrated understanding and action. Contributors argue that traditional science, power politics, and linear ideals of public policy are inadequate to address sustainability, justice, safety, and responsibility. Drawing from a series of case studies that range from nursing, to watershed management, to environmental health and risk communication, this collection strikes an informed balance between practical lessons and a sophisticated theoretical context with which to interpret them. Demonstrating the diverse contextual understanding demanded by today’s complex issues, Ecosystems, Society, and Health is a timely resource with guidance for practitioners, researchers, and educators.

Author : Steven I. Apfelbaum,Alan W. Haney
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597268134

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Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land by Steven I. Apfelbaum,Alan W. Haney Pdf

Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land is the first practical guidebook to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientific training or background the “how to” information and knowledge they need to plan and implement ecological restoration activities. The book sets forth a step-by-step process for developing, implementing, monitoring, and refining on-the-ground restoration projects that is applicable to a wide range of landscapes and ecosystems. The first part of the book introduces the process of ecological restoration in simple, easily understood language through specific examples drawn from the authors’ experience restoring their own lands in southern and central Wisconsin. It offers systematic, step-by-step strategies along with inspiration and benchmark experiences. The book’s second half shows how that same “thinking” and “doing” can be applied to North America’s major ecosystems and landscapes in any condition or scale. No other ecological restoration book leads by example and first-hand experience likethis one. The authors encourage readers to champion restoration of ecosystems close to where they live . . . at home, on farms and ranches, in parks and preserves. It provides an essential bridge for people from all walks of life and all levels of experience—from land trust member property stewards to agency personnel responsible for restoring lands in their care—and represents a unique and important contribution to the literature on restoration.

Author : David Waltner-Toews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521531853

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Ecosystem Sustainability and Health by David Waltner-Toews Pdf

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Author : Maya K. Gislason
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781903247

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Ecological Health by Maya K. Gislason Pdf

Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century. This volume reflects on recent social scientific engagement with Ecosystem Health research and practice and sets out a vision for the future.

Author : Crescentia Y. Dakubo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441902061

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Ecosystems and Human Health by Crescentia Y. Dakubo Pdf

Ecosystems and Human Health introduces Ecohealth as an emerging field of study, traces its evolution, and explains its applications in cross-disciplinary and holistic programs. Its integrative approach not only focuses on managing the environment to improve health, but also analyzes underlying social and economic determinants of health to develop innovative, people-centered interventions.

Author : Serge Morand,Claire Lajaunie
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780081011676

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Biodiversity and Health by Serge Morand,Claire Lajaunie Pdf

There is a gap between the ecology of health and the concepts supported by international initiatives such as EcoHealth, One Health or Planetary Health; a gap which this book aims to fill. Global change is accelerated by problems of growing population, industrialization and geopolitics, and the world’s biodiversity is suffering as a result, which impacts both humans and animals. However, Biodiversity and Health offers the unique opportunity to demonstrate how ecological, environmental, medical and social sciences can contribute to the improvement of human health and wellbeing through the conservation of biodiversity and the services it brings to societies. This book gives an expansive and integrated overview of the scientific disciplines that contribute to the connection between health and biodiversity, from the evolutionary ecology of infectious and non-infectious diseases to ethics, law and politics. Presents the first book to give a broad and integrated overview of the scientific disciplines that contribute to health From evolutionary ecology, to laws and policies, this book explores the links between health and biodiversity Demonstrates how ecological sciences, environmental sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences may contribute to improve human health

Author : Tee L. Guidotti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199325337

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Health and Sustainability by Tee L. Guidotti Pdf

"'Health and sustainability: an introduction' details how the science and values of sustainability can be applied to health protection and population health. By providing a practical framework for understanding complicated sustainability problems related to health, the book offers an authoritative resource for understanding the relationship between health and sustainability policies and practice"--back cover.

Author : Lars K. Hallström,Nicholas P. Guehlstorf,Margot W. Parkes
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773583276

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Ecosystems, Society, and Health by Lars K. Hallström,Nicholas P. Guehlstorf,Margot W. Parkes Pdf

The modern world has created complex systems that have interrelated concerns. Ecosystems, Society, and Health presents new perspectives on how the challenges relating to these concerns must be examined, not as disparate political narratives, but as dynamic transformational stories that demand integrative systems of research, analysis, practice, and action. Struggles over healthy watersheds, diseases associated with environmental change, and public health impacts of unsafe food exemplify the demand for integrated understanding and action. Contributors argue that traditional science, power politics, and linear ideals of public policy are inadequate to address sustainability, justice, safety, and responsibility. Drawing from a series of case studies that range from nursing, to watershed management, to environmental health and risk communication, this collection strikes an informed balance between practical lessons and a sophisticated theoretical context with which to interpret them. Demonstrating the diverse contextual understanding demanded by today’s complex issues, Ecosystems, Society, and Health is a timely resource with guidance for practitioners, researchers, and educators.

Author : Jean Lebel,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ecological disturbances
ISBN : UCBK:C095486010

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Health by Jean Lebel,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

The book demonstrates how decision-makers, in particular, can use the Ecohealth approach to formulate policies and solutions that are both immediately visible and sustainable over the long term.

Author : D. J. Rapport,Connie L. Gaudet,R. Constanza,P. R. Epstein,R. Levins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444313468

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Ecosystem Health by D. J. Rapport,Connie L. Gaudet,R. Constanza,P. R. Epstein,R. Levins Pdf

Ecosystem Health presents information to help the environmental sciences community further understand the relationships between ecosystem health and human health. By exploring preventative, diagnostic and prognostic aspects of ecosystem management and using case-study examples, the book takes the reader from theory to practice in this emerging integrative science.

Author : Dominique F. Charron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1461405173

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Ecohealth Research in Practice by Dominique F. Charron Pdf

This book is about doing innovative research to achieve sustainable and equitable change in people’s health and well-being through improved interactions with the environment. It presents experiences from the field of ecosystem approaches to health (or ecohealth research) and some insights and lessons learned. It builds on previous literature, notably Forget (1997), Forget and Lebel (2001), Lebel (2003), and Waltner-Toews et al. (2008). Through case-studies and other contributions by researchers supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the book presents evidence of real changes in conditions of people, their health, and the ecosystems that support them. These changes were derived from applications of an ecosystem approach to health in developing regions of the world. The book also illustrates the resulting body of applied, participatory, and action research that improved health and environmental management in developing countries and, in many cases, influenced policies and practices.

Author : Geof Rayner,Tim Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136482717

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Ecological Public Health by Geof Rayner,Tim Lang Pdf

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits the twenty-first century’s challenges. It integrates what the authors call the four dimensions of existence: the material, biological, social and cultural aspects of life. Public health becomes the task of transforming the relationship between people, their circumstances and the biological world of nature and bodies. For Geof Rayner and Tim Lang, this is about facing a number of long-term transitions, some well recognized, others not. These transitions are Demographic, Epidemiological, Urban, Energy, Economic, Nutrition, Biological, Cultural and Democracy itself. The authors argue that identifying large scale transitions such as these refocuses public health actions onto the conditions on which human and eco-systems health interact. Making their case, Rayner and Lang map past confusions in public health images, definitions and models. This is an optimistic book, arguing public health can be rescued from its current dilemmas and frustrations. This century’s agenda is unavoidably complex, however, and requires stronger and more daring combinations of interdisciplinary work, movements and professions locally, nationally and globally. Outlining these in the concluding section, the book charts a positive and reinvigorated institutional purpose.

Author : Dawn M. Elmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ecosystem health
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996595F

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Understanding the Links Between Ecosystem Health and Social System Well-being by Dawn M. Elmer Pdf

Author : Craig Stephen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000285468

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Animals, Health, and Society by Craig Stephen Pdf

CHOICE Recommended title 2022 This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity. This new narrative promotes the positive contributions made to health across species and generations and addresses growing calls to shift from a reactive to proactive approach in One Health. Editor Craig Stephen takes the reader on a tour of the situations wherein we can all, regardless of our job description, work across species, sectors, and generations to motivate action. Perspectives and methods from a variety of fields and experts are shared and adapted to promote collaborative understanding of and action on determinants of health at the animal-society interface. Case studies demonstrate that the principles and practices presented are feasible, empowering people to make choices that concurrently benefit the health of animals, societies, and ecosystems. The first book to adapt and explain health promotion, harm reduction, and health equity issues in a One Health context, and in terms of animal health, this is necessary reading for students of and practitioners working in planetary health, conservation, ecohealth, public health, health promotion, veterinary medicine, and animal welfare.

Author : Carlos Corvalán,Simon Hales,Anthony J. McMichael,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program),World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241563093

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Ecosystems and Human Well-being by Carlos Corvalán,Simon Hales,Anthony J. McMichael,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program),World Health Organization Pdf

Approximately 60% of the benefits that the global ecosystem provides to support life on Earth (such as fresh water, clean air and a relatively stable climate) are being degraded or used unsustainably. In the report, scientists warn that harmful consequences of this degradation to human health are already being felt and could grow significantly worse over the next 50 years.