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Ecohealth Research in Practice

Innovative Applications of an Ecosystem Approach to Health

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Dominique F. Charron

    1. IDRC, Ottawa, Canada

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  • Ecohealth is an emerging, multidisciplinary, and expanding field of research, practice, and policymaking around the world
  • Features case studies from around the world with synthetic analysis of the research
  • Demonstrates how ecohealth research has led to sustained improvements in both human and ecosystem health

Part of the book series: Insight and Innovation in International Development (IIID, volume 1)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Ecohealth: Origins and Approach

    • Dominique F. Charron
    Pages 1-30

  3. Linking Human Health and Well-Being to Changing Rural Agro-Ecosystems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Introduction

      • Lamia El-Fattal, Andrés Sánchez
      Pages 33-35

    3. Growing Healthy Communities: Farmer Participatory Research to Improve Child Nutrition, Food Security, and Soils in Ekwendeni, Malawi

      • Rachel Bezner Kerr, Rodgers Msachi, Laifolo Dakishoni, Lizzie Shumba, Zachariah Nkhonya, Peter Berti et al.
      Pages 37-46

    4. Tackling Challenges to Farmers’ Health and Agro-Ecosystem Sustainability in Highland Ecuador

      • Fadya A. Orozco, Donald C. Cole
      Pages 47-58

    5. Coping with Environmental and Health Impacts in a Floricultural Region of Ecuador

      • Jaime Breilh
      Pages 59-68

    6. Dietary Diversity in Lebanon and Yemen: A Tale of Two Countries

      • Malek Batal, Amin Al-Hakimi, Frédéric Pelat
      Pages 69-80

  4. Natural Resources, Ecosystems, Pollution, and Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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  5. Natural Resources, Ecosystems, Pollution, and Health

    1. Introduction

      • Ana Boischio, Zsófia Orosz
      Pages 83-85

    2. An Ecosystem Study of Manganese Mining in Molango, Mexico

      • Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez, Sandra Rodríguez-Dozal
      Pages 87-97

    3. Ecohealth Research for Mitigating Health Risks of Stone Crushing and Quarrying, India

      • Raghwesh Ranjan, K. Vijaya Lakshmi, Kalpana Balakrishnan
      Pages 99-108

    4. A Virtuous Cycle in the Amazon: Reducing Mercury Exposure from Fish Consumption Requires Sustainable Agriculture

      • Jean Remy Davée Guimarães, Donna Mergler
      Pages 109-118

    5. Impacts on Environmental Health of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ecuador

      • Óscar Betancourt, Ramiro Barriga, Jean Remy Davée Guimarães, Edwin Cueva, Sebastián Betancourt
      Pages 119-130

  6. Poverty, Ecosystems, and Vector-Borne Diseases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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  7. Globalization, Poverty, and Vector-Borne Diseases

    1. Introduction

      • Roberto Bazzani, Martin Wiese
      Pages 133-137

    2. Malaria Research and Management Need Rethinking: Uganda and Tanzania Case Studies

      • Joseph Okello-Onen, Leonard E. G. Mboera, Samuel Mugisha
      Pages 139-151

    3. An Ecosystem Approach for the Prevention of Chagas Disease in Rural Guatemala

      • Carlota Monroy, Xochitl Castro, Dulce Maria Bustamante, Sandy Steffany Pineda, Antonieta Rodas, Barbara Moguel et al.
      Pages 153-162

    4. Preventing Dengue at the Local Level in Havana City

      • Cristina Díaz
      Pages 163-171

    5. Eco-Bio-Social Research on Dengue in Asia: General Principles and a Case Study from Indonesia

      • S. Tana, W. Abeyewickreme, N. Arunachalam, F. Espino, P. Kittayapong, K. T. Wai et al.
      Pages 173-184
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“This book, besides being informative, is inspirational. The introductory chapters, the description of the research projects, and the closing chapters that analyze the scope and challenges of ecohealth all together present evidence that this is a lively, evolving field with a clear mission, driven by an ever-growing scientific community of practice.”

From the Foreword by Mario-Henry Rodriguez

Director General, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca Morelos, México

Editors and Affiliations

  • IDRC, Ottawa, Canada

    Dominique F. Charron

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecohealth Research in Practice

  • Book Subtitle: Innovative Applications of an Ecosystem Approach to Health

  • Editors: Dominique F. Charron

  • Series Title: Insight and Innovation in International Development

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0517-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: International Development Research Centre 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0516-0Published: 24 November 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0671-6Published: 24 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0517-7Published: 25 November 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Environmental Management, Ecosystems, Development Economics

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