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Misc. Articles Related to Ecosystem Health:

Deadly Bug Alert: Farming Antibiotic Threat

West Nile Virus

Antibiotics: Food for Thought

Environment and Health:
2.Global Climate Change and Health

Ecosystem Health Lecture (Dr. Lannigan, April 25 2001, PDF 59kb)


Program Publications

Rapport, D.J., Howard, J., Lannigan, R., and McCauley, W. (2003) Linking health and ecology in the medical curriculum. Environment International (in press).

Rapport, D.J., Howard, J., Lannigan, R., McMurtry, R., Jones, D.L., Anjema, C.M., Bend, J.R. (2002) Thinking outside the box: introducing ecosystem health into undergraduate medical education. In: A. A. Aguirre, R. S. Ostfeld, C. A. House, G. M. Tabor and M. C. Pearl (Editors.), Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice, Oxford University Press, New York.

Rapport, D.J., Howard, J.M., Lannigan, R., Anjema, C.M., McCauley, W. (2001). Strange bedfellows: Ecosystem health in the medical curriculum. Ecosystem Health 7(3):155-162.

Rapport, D.J., Fyfe, W.S., Costanza, R., Spiegel, J., Yassi, A., Bohm, G.M., Patil, G.P., Lannigan, R., Anjema, C.M., Whitford, W.G., Horwitz, P. (2001). Ecosystem health: definitions, assessment and case studies. In: Our Fragile World: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development. Forerunner to the Encyclopedia of Life-Support Systems by Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General UNESCO, 2001, 2300 pages.


Other Useful Publications

Selected Articles

Rapport,DJ, Hilden,M, Weppling,K. (2000) Restoring the health of the earth's ecosystems: A new challenge for the earth sciences. Episodes,23 (1) 12-19

Rapport, DJ. (2000) Ecological footprints and ecosystem health: complementary approaches to a sustainable future. Ecological Economics 32:367-370.

Costanza, R. (2000) Social goals and the valuation of ecosystem services. Ecosystems 3: 4-10.

Costanza, R., Daly, H. et. al (2000) Managing our environmental portfolio. BioScience 50( 2): 149-155

Rapport, DJ., Christensen, N., Karr, JR., Patil, GP. (1999) The Centrality of Ecosystem Health in Achieving Sustainability in the 21st Century. Transactions of The Royal Society of Canada. Edited by DM. Hayne. Series VI, Volume IX, 1998. University of Toronto Press.

Costanza, R. and Mageau, M. (1999) What is a healthy ecosystem? Aquatic Ecology 33:105-115.

McMichael, A.J., Bolin, B., et. al. (1999) Globalization and the sustainability of human health: An ecological perspective. BioScience 49(3): 205-210.

Rapport, D., Costanza, R. and McMichael, A.J. (1998) Assessing ecosystem health. TREE 13(10): 397-402.

Costanza, R., d'Arge, R. et. al. (1997) The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387: 253-260.

Books

Rapport, D.J., Lasley, B.L., Rolston, D.E., Nielsen, N.O., Qualset, C.O., and Damania, A.B. (eds) (2002) Managing for Healthy Ecosystems. CRC Press.

Aguirre, A.A., Ostfeld, R.S., Tabor, G.M., House, C. and Pearl, M.C. (eds) (2002) Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice. Oxford University Press.

Costanza, R., and Jorgensen, S.E. (eds) (2002)
. Understanding and Solving Environmental Problems in the 21st Century. Elsevier Science Ltd.

Philp, R.B. (2001) Ecosystems and Human Health. 2nd Ed. CRC Press LLC.

Aron, J.L. and Patz, J.A. (2001) Ecosystem Change and Public Health, A Global Perspective. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Somerville, MA & Rapport, DJ. (eds) (2000). Transdisciplinarity: Re-creating Integrated Knowledge. EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK

Rapport, D.J., Epstein, P.R., Levins, R., Costanza, R., Gaudet, C. (1998) Ecosystem Health. Blackwell Science, Inc. Malden, MA.

Costanza, R., Norton, B.G., Haskell, B.D. (eds) (1992) Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management. Island Press, Washington, D.C.


Journals

Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) (Environmental and Health Series)

Ecosystem Health (Official Journal of the International Society for Ecosystem Health).


Websites

Academic Programs

Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

Consortium for Health and Ecology, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Johns Hopkins University: Bloomberg School of Public Health - Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change

Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine

University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Division of Ecology and Health

Organizations

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

The Consortium for Conservation Medicine

Environment News Service

International Development Research Centre, Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health program

International Society for Ecosystem Health

Canadian Environmental Law Association

Canadian Environmental Defence Fund

Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy

Ontario Clean Water Agency

Pollution Watch

Wildlife Trust

World Commission on Water for the 21st Century

World Water Council

World Wildlife Federation

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