Erschienen in:
01.09.2009 | Editorial
Water and Health, Ecosystems and Drought
verfasst von:
Pierre Horwitz
Erschienen in:
EcoHealth
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Ausgabe 3/2009
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Excerpt
Many of the articles in this issue have a water and health theme, and this is not unusual for our journal. Several articles cover emerging infectious diseases in the aquatic medium, the health of aquatic animals, and the influence of weather patterns and climate change on them. Taken as whole, the issue demonstrates the contributions that a focus on water, particularly wetlands and catchments, can make. By explicitly reintegrating ecosystems, social systems, and governance, water can be seen as both the context and the determinant for health promotion’s healthy settings agenda (Parkes and Horwitz,
2009). …