Ticks as features of land systems
(2024) 35th International Geographical congress — Location: Dublin (24.August.2024)
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- Landscapes, included forested landscapes, often correspond to multiple land uses that conciliate sometimes conflicting goals. As complex socio-ecological systems, land systems result from sustained interactions and trade-offs made by diverse stakeholders. Health has so far scarcely been considered, despite the wealth of research associating land cover to zoonotic disease and land use to human exposure to infection. We will first present how the land systems lens adds values to risk frameworks used currently that focus on land cover and land use. We will then examine tick-borne diseases in forests in Belgium in the context of forest management in its various dimensions. Reviewing existing work, we will evaluate how well this captures current forest management stakes in relation to conservation, production, recreation and climate change resilience. Our objectives are to reverse the perspective on forest management in the field of zoonotic diseases, where it is often considered a posteriori, and to elaborate ways to integrate health as a feature of human-environment interactions in land systems.
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Vanwambeke, S. (2024). Ticks as features of land systems. 35th International Geographical congress, Dublin. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/239429