Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1092-1098

  Patz, Jonathan A ^a   Daszak, Peter ^b   Tabor, Gary M ^c   Aguirre, A Alonso ^d   Pearl, Mary ^d   Epstein, Jon ^b   Wolfe, Nathan D ^e   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^b   Foufopoulos, Johannes ^f   Molyneux, David ^g   Bradley, David J ^h   Amerasinghe, F P ⁱ   Ashford, R W ⁱ   Barthelemy, D ⁱ   Bos, R ⁱ   Bradley, D J ⁱ   Buck, A ⁱ   Butler, C ⁱ   Chivian, E S ⁱ   Chua, K B ⁱ   Clark, G ⁱ   Colwell, R ⁱ   Confalonieri, U E ⁱ   Corvalan, C ⁱ   Cunningham, A A ⁱ   Dein, J ⁱ   Dobson, A P ⁱ   Else, J G ⁱ   Epstein, J ⁱ   Field, H ⁱ   Furu, P ⁱ   Gascon, C ⁱ   Graham, D ⁱ   Haines, A ⁱ   Hyatt, A D ⁱ   Jamaluddin, A ⁱ   Kleinau, E F ⁱ   Koontz, F ⁱ   Koren, H S ⁱ   LeBlancq, S ⁱ   Lele, S ⁱ   Lindsay, S ⁱ   Maynard, N ⁱ   McLean, R G ⁱ   McMichael, T ⁱ   Molyneux, D ⁱ   Morse, S S ⁱ   Norris, D E ⁱ   Ostfeld, R S ⁱ   Pearl, M C ⁱ   Pimentel, D ⁱ   Rakototiana, L ⁱ   Randriamanajara, O ⁱ   Riach, J ⁱ   Rosenthal, J P ⁱ   Salazar Sanchez, E ⁱ   Silbergeld, E ⁱ   Thomson, M ⁱ   Vittor, A Y ⁱ   Yameogo, L ⁱ   Zakarov, V ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Consortium for Conservation Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c Wilburforce Foundation   (United States)

^d ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deforestation; Ecosystems; Emerging infectious diseases; Land use; Lyme disease; Malaria; Urban sprawl; Wildlife; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONSTRUCTION WORK; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EPIDEMIC; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINING; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; POLICY; POLLUTION CONTROL; POPULATION MIGRATION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOLOGY; STAFF TRAINING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 3543137227     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6877     Document Type: Article

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