Erschienen in:
14.05.2021
Toward Urban Planetary Health Solutions to Climate Change and Other Modern Crises
verfasst von:
Jonathan A. Patz, José G. Siri
Erschienen in:
Journal of Urban Health
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Ausgabe 3/2021
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Excerpt
We are faced today with multiple, overlapping, global-scale crises, from biodiversity loss to climate change to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There is no longer any credible doubt, for example, that our collective emissions drive global warming, and evidence suggests that degraded landscapes and ecosystems are at least partly to blame for the emergence of the new coronavirus [
1], as they are for viral spillover more generally. The emerging field of planetary health is a framework for understanding these interconnections and identifying solutions to the complex challenges confronting our civilization. …