Knowing nature and community through mosquitoes: reframing pest management through lay vector ecologies

Biehler, Dawn; Leisnham, Paul T.; LaDeau, Shannon L.; Bodner, Danielle

doi:10.1080/13549839.2019.1681387

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“…Humans living in proximity Synthesizing Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities approaches can be challenging for many reasons. The One Health approach is originally derived from the integration of veterinary and human medicine (Destoumieux-Garzón et al 2018), and still suffers from epistemological hierarchies and everyday experiences (Biehler et al 2019;Evans et al 2022) Box 3. Limitations and Challenges to Synthesis and Application Fig.…”

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Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities

Ellwanger

Byrne

2022

Urban Ecosyst

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disease dynamics are strongly determined by many ecological characteristics of animals' populations (abundance, distribution, behaviors, movement, etc.), communities (species richness, interspecific interactions, etc.), and interactions with people (Karesh et al. 2012;Johnson et al. 2015b;McMahon et al. 2018;Keesing and Ostfeld 2021). Urbanization alters these variables and other environmental conditions (e.g., climate, food and habitat availability; landscape structure; waste accumulation; water flow), all of which interact to affect disease risk for human and non-human residents (

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Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities

Ellwanger

Byrne

2022

Urban Ecosyst

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“…Our discussions with community members illustrated their knowledge of mosquito dynamics in their own neighbourhoods, a type of place‐based knowledge that typifies a ‘bionomic’ approach to vector control that relies on ecological relationships to identify the most productive larval habitats (Kelly & Lezaun, 2013). As has been suggested elsewhere (Bempah et al, 2020; Biehler et al, 2019; Dongus et al, 2007), inclusion of local knowledge via participatory mapping and visualization activities in addition to standard entomological sampling is a promising opportunity for an alternative approach to vector control that includes place‐based ecological knowledge.…”

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Socio‐ecological dynamics in urban systems: An integrative approach to mosquito‐borne disease in Bengaluru, India

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Urban environments are heterogeneous landscapes of social and environmental features, with important consequences for human–nature entanglements, such as that of mosquito‐borne disease. Investigations into this intra‐urban heterogeneity in mosquito dynamics find conflicting results, likely due to the complex socio‐ecological interactions and the importance of place‐based context. Integrative research, which synthesizes multiple disciplines and epistemologies, can place ecological results into their social context to explore these place‐based differences and reveal novel solutions for mosquito‐borne disease management. Here, we develop an integrative approach to understanding spatial patterns of mosquito burdens in urban systems by combining entomological surveys, semi‐structured interviews and sketch maps. We highlight this approach using a mixed‐method study conducted in Bengaluru, India, a rapidly urbanizing city with a high burden of mosquito‐borne disease. Although we found no evidence for a difference in mosquito abundance across an urban gradient, there were differences in individuals' everyday experiences with mosquitoes. These differences were mediated by how individuals moved through outdoor space and their vulnerability to hazards in these spaces. This example of integrative research illustrates what can be gained from the inclusion of multiple epistemologies, particularly for research in urban systems. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…Our discussions with community members illustrated their knowledge of mosquito dynamics in their own neighborhoods, a type of place-based knowledge that typifies a “bionomic” approach to vector control that relies on ecological relationships to identify the most productive larval habitats (Kelly and Lezaun 2013). As has been suggested elsewhere (Dongus et al 2007, Biehler et al 2019, Bempah et al 2020), inclusion of local knowledge via participatory mapping and visualization activities in addition to standard entomological sampling is a promising opportunity for an alternative approach to vector control that includes place-based ecological knowledge.…”

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An integrative approach to mosquito dynamics reveals differences in people’s everyday experiences of mosquitoes

Evans

Bhatnagar

Drake

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Urban environments are heterogeneous landscapes of social and environmental features, with important consequences for human-nature entanglements, such as that of mosquito-borne disease. Investigations into this intra-urban heterogeneity in mosquito dynamics find conflicting results, likely due to the complex socio-ecological interactions and the importance of place-based context. Integrative research, which synthesizes multiple disciplines and epistemologies, can help place ecological results into their social context to explore these place-based differences. Here, we develop an integrative approach to understanding spatial patterns of mosquito burdens in urban systems by combining entomological surveys, semi-structured interviews, and sketch maps. Although we found no evidence for a difference in mosquito abundance across an urban gradient, there were differences in individuals' everyday experiences with mosquitoes. These differences were mediated by how individuals moved through public space and their vulnerability to hazards in these spaces. This example of integrative research illustrates what can be gained from the inclusion of multiple epistemologies, particularly for research in socio-ecological systems.

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Knowing nature and community through mosquitoes: reframing pest management through lay vector ecologies

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities

Examining the paradox of urban disease ecology by linking the perspectives of Urban One Health and Ecology with Cities

Socio‐ecological dynamics in urban systems: An integrative approach to mosquito‐borne disease in Bengaluru, India

An integrative approach to mosquito dynamics reveals differences in people’s everyday experiences of mosquitoes

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