Is the land systems framework a valuable complement to existing frameworks for vector-borne and zoonotic disease geography?
(2022) International Medical Geography Symposium — Location: University of Edimburgh (19.June.2022)
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- The association between land use and vector-borne and zoonotic disease has long been known and extensively studied. In a diversity of contexts, strong associations have been identified between hosts, vectors or pathogens and land cover and land use. The land system framework has evolved alongside the ecosystem service framework and more recently the framework of nature’s contribution to people. It recognizes that land is used to serve a diversity of demands by a diversity of users, and that management decisions are driven by a diversity of elements, some of which may lead to more favorable tradeoffs between competing demands. Can this framework help understanding in finer details not only the role of land use in all its diversity but also integrate health risks as part of a trade-offs? In the context of vector-borne and zoonotic disease, the land systems framework appears particularly interesting with regard to intensity of use, interfaces and the institutional context. These features of land systems affect infectious disease geography in a way that warrants both a re-examination of how land use is monitored for the purpose of understanding temporal and spatial dynamics of diseases and more attention to pathogens as a feature of land systems in the same way that biodiversity is considered. Keywords: land use, land systems, vector-borne diseases, zoonotic diseases, human-environment interactions
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Vanwambeke, S. (2022). Is the land systems framework a valuable complement to existing frameworks for vector-borne and zoonotic disease geography? International Medical Geography Symposium, University of Edimburgh. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224742