Assessment of temporal trends in ecosystem health using an holistic indicator

Wiegand, Jessica; Raffaelli, Dave; Smart, James C. R.; White, Piran C. L.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.02.004

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“…Environmental health indicators have also been explored in order to assess the effect of environmental change as well as provide insight for health assessments (IOM 2004). Useful indicators of ecosystem health are being developed to assess the ecological, social, and economic changes over space and time in both natural and urban systems (Wiegand et al 2010). Ecological indicators can include measures such as water quality, tree canopy cover, soil organic matter, wildlife/bird populations, land use profiles, and vegetation characteristics (Muñoz-Erickson et al 2010).…”

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Need for Enhanced Environmental Representation in the Implementation of One Health

Barrett

Bouley

2014

EcoHealth

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Issues of global environmental change, global health, emerging disease, and sustainability present some of the most complex challenges of the twenty-first century. Individual disciplines cannot address these issues in isolation. Proactive, innovative, and trans-disciplinary solutions are required. Recognizing the inherent connectedness of humans, animals, plants, and their shared environment, One Health encourages the collaboration of many disciplines-including human and veterinary medicine, public health, social science, public policy, environmental science, and others-to address global and local health challenges. Despite great progress in this shift toward transdisciplinarity, the environmental component of the One Health paradigm remains underrepresented in One Health discourse. Human and animal health issues are commonly discussed under the umbrella of the One Health paradigm, while upstream environmental drivers and solutions are less prominent. We assessed the current integration of environmental issues in One Health publications and leadership. There is room for enhanced integration of environmental knowledge in the implementation of One Health approaches. We discuss the potential benefits from the collaboration between One Health and ecohealth, and explore strategies for increased environmental involvement.

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Section: Environmental Datamentioning

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Need for Enhanced Environmental Representation in the Implementation of One Health

Barrett

Bouley

2014

EcoHealth

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“…Therefore, the adjustment changes the assessment of water quality and its evaluation, to a combination of not only the constitutive components, but also their interactions. This can potentially be applied to the existing composite indicators where expert opinions are substantially used and variable interactions are common, such as integrated environmental evaluations (see Halpern et al, 2012;Wiegand et al, 2010), sustainable development indicators (Hák et al, 2016), resilience assessment (Schipper and Langston, 2015), and socio-economic performance measurement (Bandura, 2008).…”

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Developing composite indicators for ecological water quality assessment based on network interactions and expert judgment

Mao

Zhao

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Environmental Modelling & Software

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“…Complex indices Eco-efficient and disease indicators (Zhang et al, 2008); An emergy-based urban ecosystem health index (Liu et al, 2009); The holistic ecosystem health indicator (HEHI) which integrates data from the ecological, social and interactive dimensions (Wiegand et al, 2010);…”

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A material flow-based approach for diagnosing urban ecosystem health

Shi

Yang

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tUrban ecosystem health is an important concept in sustainable development. Knowledge of health status is crucial to maintaining the health of urban ecosystems. Existing methods for assessing urban ecosystem health often focus on a synthesizing assessment but neglect analysis of process. These approaches often rely on a complex indicator system that includes social, economic and environmental factors and use synthesis indicators. This means that their ability to provide diagnosis information for decision makers is limited. For meeting this need, this paper developed a diagnosis approach based on material flow for assessing urban ecosystem health.A healthy urban ecosystem should be able to support urban development and have enough resilience to recover from ecological environmental stress. Healthy material flow can support the function of the system. Therefore material flow can be regarded as a key factor that reflects the health of an urban ecosystem. This paper explores the mechanism for material flow between urban and natural ecosystems and reveals the main problems that affect urban ecosystem health. A material flow model of urban ecosystems is established by using this mechanism. By using this model, a diagnosis framework is developed for diagnosis of urban ecosystem health. The framework consists of function analysis, input eoutput flow analysis, health assessment, and function optimization. It focuses on developing a material flow-based diagnosis approach and an indicator system including function-based indicators and effectbased indicators. Case studies show that this approach can not only diagnose the health problems of an urban ecosystem but can also identify the main causes of the problems. Therefore our approach can aid decision makers in making a timely and informative diagnosis of urban ecosystem health to support planning and management decisions.

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Assessment of temporal trends in ecosystem health using an holistic indicator

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

Need for Enhanced Environmental Representation in the Implementation of One Health

Need for Enhanced Environmental Representation in the Implementation of One Health

Developing composite indicators for ecological water quality assessment based on network interactions and expert judgment

A material flow-based approach for diagnosing urban ecosystem health

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