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ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH

A Practical Approach

Improving the health of people and animals, and improving the health, integrity or

sustainability of ecosystems are laudable and important objectives. Can we do both?

There are no ecosystems untouched by human activity, and there are worrying signs

that the world’s ecosystems are reaching the limits of their ability to adapt to human

impacts. Drawing on ﬁelds as diverse as epidemiology and participatory action

research, philosophy and environmental sciences, ecology and systems sciences

this book is about searching for solutions to complex problems to produce a new

science for sustainability.

DAVID WALTNER-TOEWS is a veterinary epidemiologist in the Department of

Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, Canada, specialising in the epi-

demiology of zoonoses, diseases of animals that can be transmitted to humans who

live with them, share their environments, or eat them. He is also founding president

of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (NESH), which brings

together some of the most cutting edge thinking in complexity and sustainability

with local community development in many parts of the world.

ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY

AND HEALTH

A Practical Approach

DAVID WALTNER-TOEWS

University of Guelph

Ecosystem Sustainability and Health - D. Waltner-Toews (Cambridge, 2004) WW.pdf