Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania

Authors/Creators

Rosemary A. McFarlane
Pierre Horwitz, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Kerry Arabena
Anthony Capon
Aaron Jenkins, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Stacy Jupiter
Joel Negin
Margot W. Parkes
Sala Saketa

Abstract

The state of ecosystems and the health and well-being of people that depend on them are fundamentally linked. However, these links are often obscured – geographically, as globalised trade separates production of goods and ecosystem services from consumers; across time, as physical and mental impacts accumulate across lifespans; and through the complexity of competing socio-economic and cultural influences. Pervasive societal dualisms like nature-culture, and even social-ecological, fragment thinking and decision-making. Definitions differ across sectors. Health encapsulates well-being in the World Health Organization’s holistic, landmark 1948 definition of health. A broader, health-inclusive well-being is articulated as the output of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), and its ecosystem service framework (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005)...

RAS ID

30021

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2019

School

School of Science

Copyright

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Publisher

Elsevier

Comments

McFarlane, R. A., Horwitz, P., Arabena, K., Capon, A., Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., ... Saketa, S. (2019). Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania. Ecosystem Services, 39, Article 100976. Available here

Recommended Citation

McFarlane, R. A., Horwitz, P., Arabena, K., Capon, A., Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Negin, J., Parkes, M. W., & Saketa, S. (2019). Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100976