Oceans and Human Health and the New Blue Economy

Sandifer, Paul A.; Keener, Paula; Scott, Geoffrey I.; Porter, Dwayne E.

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“…Lastly, the short-term and long-term clinical and societal benefits of exposure to different coastal environments should be quantified in economic value and their cost effectiveness should be outweighed with respect to other treatments for mental health (Papathanasopoulou et al, 2016). If exposure to restorative coastal environments would prove to be cost-effective, then sharing literacy about the coast's therapeutic value with the health sector, public, and tourism sector may provide beneficial ripple-effects through society (Roberts et al, 2021;Sandifer et al, 2021).…”

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‘Blue’ coasts: Unravelling the perceived restorativeness of coastal environments and the influence of their components

Hooyberg

Michels

Allaert

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Avenues For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Blue’ coasts: Unravelling the perceived restorativeness of coastal environments and the influence of their components

Hooyberg

Michels

Allaert

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…As examples, human illnesses caused by HABs and infectious Vibrios , either via consumption of contaminated food or contact with water or aerosols containing toxins or microbes, have been recognized for decades ( 139 , 140 ). Such negative effects appear to be increasing in response to climate change-associated rising water temperatures, salinity changes in coastal areas, and interactions of microbes and HABs with nutrients, heavy metals, antibiotics, and microplastics ( 1 , 20 , 141 ). Yet these adverse health outcomes remain under-reported, frequently misdiagnosed, and poorly recognized by medical and public health professionals, as well as by coastal managers, residents, and visitors.…”

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“…For instance, HAB-related illnesses are believed to be at least 10-fold more prevalent than reported ( 142 ), while ciguatera poisonings in Florida are estimated to be 55–87 times higher ( 143 ). Vibrio -associated illnesses are also severely underreported, and in one instance V. vulnificus infections were estimated to be 142 times higher than reported ( 20 ).…”

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Linking coastal environmental and health observations for human wellbeing

Sandifer

2023

Front. Public Health

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Coastal areas have long been attractive places to live, work, and recreate and remain so even in the face of growing threats from global environmental change. At any moment, a significant portion of the human population is exposed to both positive and negative health effects associated with coastal locations. Some locations may be “hotspots” of concern for human health due to ongoing climatic and other changes, accentuating the need for better understanding of coastal environment-human health linkages. This paper describes how environmental and health data could be combined to create a coastal environmental and human health observing system. While largely based on information from the US and Europe, the concept should be relevant to almost any coastal area. If implemented, a coastal health observing system would connect a variety of human health data and environmental observations for individuals and communities, and where possible cohorts. Health data would be derived from questionnaires and other personal sources, clinical examinations, electronic health records, wearable devices, and syndromic surveillance, plus information on vulnerability and health-relevant community characteristics, and social media observations. Environmental data sources would include weather and climate, beach and coastal conditions, sentinel species, occurrences of harmful organisms and substances, seafood safety advisories, and distribution, proximity, and characteristics of health-promoting green and blue spaces. Where available, information on supporting resources could be added. Establishment of a linked network of coastal health observatories could provide powerful tools for understanding the positive and negative health effects of coastal living, lead to better health protections and enhanced wellbeing, and provide significant benefits to coastal residents, including the historically disadvantaged, as well as the military, hospitals and emergency departments, academic medical, public health, and environmental health programs, and others. Early networks could provide best practices and lessons learned to assist later entries.

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“…Most of these studies have been mainly focused, however, on sectors of society for which the economic losses are relatively more evident, such as fisheries, aquaculture, and human health, with very few assessments so far accounting for possible interactions across these sectors and how they can affect and be affected by the well being of coastal communities and/or ecosystem services (e.g., [24][25][26]). Although HABs are broadly identified as one of the major threats to the ocean and human health as well as to the development of sustainable activities [27][28][29], up to now, no review has been entirely focused on HABs as deterring agents of the blue economy. This chapter aims to provide the first overview of the disruptive impact of HABs on sustainable development, with a particular focus on the application of science and technology advancements in the management and mitigation of HABs to facilitate the implementation of blue economy goals.…”

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Harmful Algae

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This chapter provides the first overview of the disruptive impacts of HABs on the blue economy, with a particular focus on the application of science and technology in their management and mitigation. We present case studies of HABs in five different locations as examples of their effects on different sectors of the blue economy. We also review the main technological advances in recent decades, and current needs for improved understanding of HAB dynamics, monitoring, and forecasting. An evident gap in dealing with HABs in the frame of the blue economy is the inequity in resources available for monitoring worldwide. While developed countries count on advanced (and even impressive) tools for monitoring and early warning (e.g., automated tools, oceanographic moored instruments, forecast models), efficient monitoring in most developing countries is still missing and, when performed, mainly focused on seafood products intended for export. Basic research on HABs in these countries is also frequently deficient, with modeling capabilities for early warning virtually non-existent. Considering that many (truly) sustainable blue economy activities are developed precisely in vulnerable areas with low economic power, the need Please note that this is an author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available on the publisher Web site.for the development of affordable and sustainable technologies becomes critical, allowing for the efficient monitoring of HABs.

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Oceans and Human Health and the New Blue Economy

Cited by 10 publications

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‘Blue’ coasts: Unravelling the perceived restorativeness of coastal environments and the influence of their components

‘Blue’ coasts: Unravelling the perceived restorativeness of coastal environments and the influence of their components

Linking coastal environmental and health observations for human wellbeing

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