Integrating Human and Ecosystem Health Through Ecosystem Services Frameworks

Ford, Adriana; Graham, Hilary; White, Piran C. L.

doi:10.1007/s10393-015-1041-4

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“…Even as a supposed human-orientated construct, evidence suggests that key principles remain under-developed. For example, from 84 ecosystem service frameworks published 1987-2014, 62% did not consider human health and only a quarter considered interactions between human and ecosystem health (Ford, Graham, & White, 2015).…”

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Rethinking urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services from the perspective of sub-Saharan African cities

Lindley

Pauleit

Yeshitela

et al. 2018

Landscape and Urban Planning

103

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providing relevant details, so we can investigate your claim. context-specific conceptual, theoretical and empirical foundations is a problem which must be addressed. Drawing on papers from a Special Issue centred on urban green infrastructure and urban ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa, we consider what concepts and frameworks are in use and what needs to be considered when framing future research. We also synthesise key messages from the Special Issue and draw together themes to help create a new research agenda for the international research community.

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Section: Part 1: Urban Gi and Urban Ecosystem Services As Guiding Framentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services from the perspective of sub-Saharan African cities

Lindley

Pauleit

Yeshitela

et al. 2018

Landscape and Urban Planning

103

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“…3 and 4). Concepts of ecosystem health range from metaphors to operational models which can accommodate ex ante and ex post assessment along with participatory governance (Fock and Kraus 2016, 7-8), and those of ecosystem services can (despite a utilitarian lens) renew thinking around the relationship between human health and the intrinsic value of nature (Ford et al 2015). Definitions of the integrative concepts of health also vary in scope, and this instability is reflected in their content and underlying values (Lerner and Berg 2017, 5).…”

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Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology

Assmuth

Chen

Degeling

et al. 2019

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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Increasing recognition of interdependencies of the health of humans, other organisms and ecosystems, and of their importance to socio-ecological systems, necessitates application of integrative concepts such as One Health and EcoHealth. These concepts open new perspectives for research and practice but also generate confusion and divergent opinion, prompting new theories, and call for empirical clarification and evaluation. Through a semi-systematic evaluation of knowledge generation in scientific publications (comprised of literature reviews, conceptual models and analyses of communities of practice), we show how integrative concepts and approaches to health evolve and are adopted. Our findings indicate that while their contexts, goals and rationales vary, integrative concepts of health essentially arise from shared interests in living systems. Despite recent increased attention to ecological and societal aspects of health including broader sustainability issues, the focus remains anthropocentric and oriented towards biomedicine. Practices reflect and in turn transform these concepts, which together with practices also influence ways of integration. Overarching narratives vary between optimism and pessimism towards integrated health and knowledge. We conclude that there is an urgent need for better, coherent and more deeply integrative health concepts, approaches and practices to foster the well-being of humans, other animals and ecosystems. Consideration of these concepts and practices has methodological and political importance, as it will transform thinking and action on both society and nature and specifically can enrich science and practice, expanding their scope and linking them better. Transdisciplinary efforts are crucial to developing such concepts and practices to properly address the multiple facets of health and to achieve their appropriate integration for the socio-ecological systems at stake. We propose the term "transdisciplinary health" to denote the new approaches needed.

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“…Ecosystem health: "An ecological system is healthy and free from 'distress syndrome' if it is... active and maintains its organization and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress" Haskell et al (1992:9, see also Ford et al 2015) Some regard the concept of ecosystem health as problematic given that it is difficult to measure and can only be meaningfully assessed over long periods of time (Suter 1993, Rapport et al 1998. Certainly characterization and measurement of both terms require subjective as well as objective human judgements.…”

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Restoring ecosystem health to improve human health and well-being: physicians and restoration ecologists unite in a common cause

Aronson¹,

Blatt²,

Aronson³

2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Many challenges we face today are intimately linked to and derive from the biophysical and ecological degradation underway in almost all ecosystems on Earth. Responding effectively will require (1) changes in our behavior as citizens, parents, and consumers, (2) a shift to more ecologically sound technologies, taxes, and laws, and (c) an increase in long-term investments in small-, medium-, and large-scale ecological restoration projects. The health and integrity of terrestrial, coastal, and marine ecosystems directly affect human health in many ways, thus providing a powerful incentive for restoration. The recognition of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem health in the daily lives of individuals is becoming more widespread, at least among scientists and policy makers, as is the drive to achieve widespread endorsement and participation at landscape/seascape, national, international, and planetary scales. However, to accelerate the process, the general public must be better informed and committed to participation. Ecosystem health is not a new idea but it is timely to revive discussion and expand the use of the concept in view of rapidly spreading national and international commitments to large-scale ecosystem restoration and healthy landscapes, e.g., at the UNFCCC COP (Convention of the Parties) in December 2015 in Paris, the UNCCD COP in October 2015, and the COP13 of the Conventions on Biological Diversity in December 2016. When discussing restoration, the language of clinical medicine provides strong metaphors that may be useful for communication, education, research, lobbying, and outreach. Because of the links between ecosystem health and human health, physicians and health care workers in general have an important role to play alongside restoration scientists and practitioners. Furthermore, insight from the fields of clinical medical practice, research, and public health could also provide lessons for ecosystem restoration practitioners. Together, the two groups could form a potent interdisciplinary team. The authors, two ecologists and a physician, explore the use of ecosystem health as a metaphor related to human health and discuss the growing evidence of direct and indirect impacts of ecosystem dysfunction on human health.

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Integrating Human and Ecosystem Health Through Ecosystem Services Frameworks

Cited by 46 publications

References 45 publications

Rethinking urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services from the perspective of sub-Saharan African cities

Rethinking urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services from the perspective of sub-Saharan African cities

Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology

Restoring ecosystem health to improve human health and well-being: physicians and restoration ecologists unite in a common cause

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