Water and Health: on the notion of a healthy wetland
Document Type
Journal Article
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Natural Sciences / Centre for Ecosystem Management
RAS ID
14541
Abstract
A claim to "healthy ecosystems" comes from the inclusion of the systems thinking required to make judgments on the desirability of an ecological character. It is also explicit about the health of components of the ecosystem (including humans), and whether organizations are adaptive and responsive to ecosystem changes. In short, an ecosystem can be "unhealthy"; health is a powerful metaphor for the condition of an ecosystem, and ecosystem approaches to human health make critical contributions to public health.
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Horwitz, P. , & Finlayson, C. (2012). Water and Health: on the notion of a healthy wetland. Human Evolution, 27(1-3), 65-69.