“Health in” and “Health of” Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems

Frontiers in Public Health

Hugo Valls-Fox¹  Hoa Tran Quoc²  Aurélie Binot³  Michel De Garine-Wichatitsky⁴  Serge Morand⁵  Véronique Chevalier⁶  Raphaël Duboz⁷  Alexandre Caron⁸  Panomsak Promburom⁹  Richard Anthony Kock^1,10  Waraphon Phimpraphai^1,11  Iain J. Gordon^1,12  Will Allen^1,13  John Ward^1,14  Helen Ross^1,15  Rico Ancog^1,16  Pierre Echaubard^1,17  Arthur Perrotton^1,18 

[1] Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Research Unit Systèmes d'élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux (SELMET), PPZS, Dakar, Sénégal;Research Unit Systèmes d'élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux (SELMET), Univ Montpellier, Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France;Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Research unit Fonctionnement écologique et gestion durable des agrosystèmes bananiers et ananas (GECO), Vientiane, Laos;Animals, health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystem (ASTRE), University of Montpellier, Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France;Animals, health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystem (ASTRE), University of Montpellier, Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France;Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), UMR ASTRE, Bangkok, Thailand;Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand;Animals, health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystem (ASTRE), University of Montpellier, Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France;Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Faculty of Veterinary Technology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand;Animals, health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystem (ASTRE), University of Montpellier, Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France;Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia;Animals, health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystem (ASTRE), University of Montpellier, Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France;Sorbonne Université, IRD, UMMISCO, Bondy, France;Animals, health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystem (ASTRE), University of Montpellier, Agricultural research for Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France;Universidad E. Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique;Center for Agricultural Resource System Research Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand;Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom;Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand;Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia;James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom;Central Queensland University, Townsville, QLD, Australia;Land and Water, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Townsville, QLD, Australia;Learning for Sustainability, Christchurch, New Zealand;Mekong Region Futures Institute, Bangkok, Thailand;School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines;School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, United Kingdom;Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;UMR Eco&Sols, IRD, Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France;

关键词: health;    biodiversity;    agriculture;    social-ecological systems;    resilience;    co-learning;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.616328

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The past two decades have seen an accumulation of theoretical and empirical evidence for the interlinkages between human health and well-being, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and agriculture. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the devastating impacts that an emerging pathogen, of animal origin, can have on human societies and economies. A number of scholars have called for the wider adoption of “One Health integrated approaches” to better prevent, and respond to, the threats of emerging zoonotic diseases. However, there are theoretical and practical challenges that have precluded the full development and practical implementation of this approach. Whilst integrated approaches to health are increasingly adopting a social-ecological system framework (SES), the lack of clarity in framing the key concept of resilience in health contexts remains a major barrier to its implementation by scientists and practitioners. We propose an operational framework, based on a transdisciplinary definition of Socio-Ecological System Health (SESH) that explicitly links health and ecosystem management with the resilience of SES, and the adaptive capacity of the actors and agents within SES, to prevent and cope with emerging health and environmental risks. We focus on agricultural transitions that play a critical role in disease emergence and biodiversity conservation, to illustrate the proposed participatory framework to frame and co-design SESH interventions. Finally, we highlight critical changes that are needed from researchers, policy makers and donors, in order to engage communities and other stakeholders involved in the management of their own health and that of the underpinning ecosystems.

【 授权许可】

CC BY