The natural and social environment, some aspects

Health, enviromental health


Environmental health perspectives: contribution for a healthy environment

Creating healthy environments


 

Nature- Nurture: revisited by consequences of genomic research? We need to better understand the interaction
between  genetic and environmental influences.

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Environmental health:direct and indirect Interactions

                     
Direct and indirect factors from the environment effect  human health. Destroyed or disturbed biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services result in massive direct and indirect consequences for human health.
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Molecular epidemiology



 

Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology encompasses the study of genetic and environmental factors affecting the distributions and dynamics of health outcomes in populations. Investigating such outcomes entails using tools from the fields of human genetics, ecology, epidemiology, and biostatistics. Numerous human disorders appear to result from a genetic predisposition or from interactions between genes and environment, providing the genetic and molecular epidemiologist with ample opportunity for making important contributions to the study of human disease 


environmental health and molecular epidemiology

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Sustainability, diversity, benefit sharing



Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?  Eine Diskussionsveranstaltung des Forums Wissenschafter für Umwelt

Novartis,  Pharma und Kapitalismus forte: ein Fallbeispiel aus Wien

Sharing of benefits, Regulationsmöglichkeiten von Märkten und Finanzkrisen  

A conference about resilience in food production and global change, GECAFS

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility, trade, patents and human ecology




Sustainability and Human Ecology:

In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development developed a definition of sustainability that was included in its findings, which became known as the Brundtland Report. It stated that: Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The UN Millennium Development Goals make clear that sustainability includes social aspects e.g. equity as well as the interaction between human and the environment: this interaction includes different levels such as: use, consumption, transition to socio- economic systems establishing a partnership with the environment as well as creation of secondary (eco)systems 


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  • The results of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment demontrate that a sustainable development is based on the conservation of ecosystem diversity and ecosystem services
  • The objectives of the Millennium Development Goals are scrutinised by unsustainable developments threatening diversity and human health http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals --> TOTER LINK
  • To understand and enforce sustainability one must understand and agree on general principles. The International Institute for Sustainable Development gives advice and provids the text of the Bellagio Principles for the evaluation of sustainability Resilience Sience
  • INFO: The internetwork for sustainability informes about recent development: iNSnet
  • INFO: Resilience is a fundamental objective for sustainable development. The Blog gives excellent scientific help to undersatnd reslience. Resilience Sience II
  • INFO: An environmental tipping point is a point in a linked eco-social system where a small action can catalyze major changes in the system’s health. http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/what_is.html/ --> TOTER LINK
  • INFO: A footprint assessment computes a demand of a person, a city or a country on nature: The Ecological Footprint

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Developments of technologies often drive the development of societies. Technology related policy should try to shape technologies to avoid negative societal consequences e.g. inequity.

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