Climate Variability, Social and Environmental Factors, and Ross River Virus Transmission: Research Development and Future Research Needs

Tong, Shilu; Dale, Patricia Ellen; Nicholls, Neville; Mackenzie, John S.; Wolff, Rodney C.; McMichael, Anthony J.

doi:10.1289/ehp.11680

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“…Previous studies have shown that rainfall and tides have a significant impact on freshwater and salt-marsh mosquitoes, respectively as mosquito development and survival, and breeding habitats depend largely on rainfall and tides (Weinstein, 1997;Lindsay and Mackenzie, 1998;Russell, 1998a;Tong and Wu, 2001;Tong et al, 2004Tong et al, , 2008. Our results suggest that rainfall was positively and significantly associated with BFV disease.…”

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confidence: 54%

Spatial analysis of risk factors for transmission of the Barmah Forest virus in Queensland, Australia

2013

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Abstract. Barmah Forest virus (BFV) disease is the second most common mosquito-borne disease in Australia but few data are available on the risk factors. We assessed the impact of spatial climatic, socioeconomic and ecological factors on the transmission of BFV disease in Queensland, Australia, using spatial regression. All our analyses indicate that spatial lag models provide a superior fit to the data compared to spatial error and ordinary least square models. The residuals of the spatial lag models were found to be uncorrelated, indicating that the models adequately account for spatial and temporal autocorrelation. Our results revealed that minimum temperature, distance from coast and low tide were negatively and rainfall was positively associated with BFV disease in coastal areas, whereas minimum temperature and high tide were negatively and rainfall was positively associated with BFV disease (all P-value <0.05). The study demonstrates that BFV disease is more densely distributed in coastal areas and is influenced by climatic and ecological factors. The spatial analytical approach used in this study may have ramifications in the planning and implementation of BFV disease prevention and control programmes.

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Spatial analysis of risk factors for transmission of the Barmah Forest virus in Queensland, Australia

2013

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“…Kangaroos and wallabies are a major natural reservoir of RRv, causing the disease to be thought of as a rural one, but it is increasingly prevalent in peri-urban environments (Webb 2014 ;Tong et al 2008 ). In addition, saltwater mosquitoes can disperse widely in their search to fi nd a blood meal and, with wind assistance, can range up to 50 km from larval habitats in coastal wetlands (Naish et al 2012 ).…”

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Planning Development to Reduce Mosquito Hazard in Coastal Peri-Urban Areas: Case Studies in NSW, Australia

Dwyer¹,

Knight

Dale

2016

Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

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In this chapter we take a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating planning for coastal development, particularly in peri-urban areas. We consider ecosystem services and disservices and how, in the past, much development was at the expense of coastal wetlands. We then focus on mosquito production as a wetland related disservice that affects residents and imposes costs on individuals and government from both a health and management perspective. Most coastal peri-urban areas including adjacent wetland sites retain legacy infrastructures and landforms that degrade wetland function and often exacerbate the mosquito hazard. Rehabilitating coastal wetlands can improve wetland function while also reducing the mosquito hazard. Yet examination of rehabilitation and mosquito management within the existing planning framework found defi ciencies and complexity. In particular, coastal wetlands are almost always overlaid with a number of different zone and ownership boundaries that increase complexity of both mosquito management and wetland rehabilitation actions. We illustrate the issues with two case studies from northern New South Wales (NSW), Australia: a greenfi eld development located in Ballina and a retrofi tted site at Banora Point near Tweed Heads. We recommend land use planning frameworks incorporate a trigger for both assessment of adjacent coastal wetland ecosystem function and restoration of wetland ecological processes that includes provision for habitat based source control of mosquito hazard and coastal wetland rehabilitation.

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“…These values relate to the connection with the landscape and a sense of identity and community. Possible effects on human health and well-being are difficult to forecast because of the mobility of the human populations; however, there is a real possibility of an increase in diseases and pathogens that are naturally controlled today (Tong et al 2008). The most significant affects resulting from these changes will influence people's sense of place and community, which in turn influence attitudes to conservation and natural resource management initiatives.…”

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Environmental change: prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot

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ABSTRACT. Accelerating environmental change is perhaps the greatest challenge for natural resource management; successful strategies need to be effective for decades to come. Our objective is to identify opportunities that new environmental conditions may provide for conservation, restoration, and resource use in a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot in southwestern Australia. We describe a variety of changes to key taxonomic groups and system-scale characteristics as a consequence of environmental change (climate and land use), and outline strategies for conserving and restoring important ecological and agricultural characteristics. Opportunities for conservation and economic adaptation are substantial because of gradients in rainfall, temperature, and land use, extensive areas of remnant native vegetation, the ability to reduce and ameliorate areas affected by secondary salinization, and the existence of large national parks and an extensive network of nature reserves. Opportunities presented by the predicted environmental changes encompass agricultural as well as natural ecosystems. These may include expansion of aquaculture, transformation of agricultural systems to adapt to drier autumns and winters, and potential increases in spring and summer rain, carbon-offset plantings, and improving the network of conservation reserves. A central management dilemma is whether restoration/preservation efforts should have a commercial or biodiversity focus, and how they could be integrated. Although the grand challenge is conserving, protecting, restoring, and managing for a future environment, one that balances economic, social, and environmental values, the ultimate goal is to establish a regional culture that values the unique regional environment and balances the utilization of natural resources against protecting remaining natural ecosystems.

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Climate Variability, Social and Environmental Factors, and Ross River Virus Transmission: Research Development and Future Research Needs

Cited by 53 publications

References 42 publications

Spatial analysis of risk factors for transmission of the Barmah Forest virus in Queensland, Australia

Spatial analysis of risk factors for transmission of the Barmah Forest virus in Queensland, Australia

Planning Development to Reduce Mosquito Hazard in Coastal Peri-Urban Areas: Case Studies in NSW, Australia

Environmental change: prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot

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