The Berlin principles on one health – Bridging global health and conservation

Gruetzmacher, Kim; Karesh, William B.; Amuasi, John; Arshad, Adnan; Farlow, Andrew; Gabrysch, Sabine; Jetzkowitz, Jens; Lieberman, Susan; Palmer, Clare; Winkler, Andrea Sylvia; Walzer, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142919

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“…While nominally “cross-sectoral”, the majority of existing One Health research activities and projects focus on preserving the economic viability of commercial intensive agriculture or livestock production (Hinchliffe 2015 ; Porter 2019 ), with little integration of traditional biodiversity conservation concerns, such as habitat preservation or protected area management. 2 Though several prominent environmental organizations have championed or nominally adopted One Health approaches over the past two decades (Gruetzmacher et al 2021 ), concerns around viral spillover from wild animal populations and broader connections between environmental and human health have, until recently, been similarly marginal to public outreach and communications strategy, policy design and practice.…”

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“…In addition to amplifying existing arguments for strict conservation regimes that exclude humans and more militarized solutions to wildlife exploitation, there are growing calls to incorporate One Health and biosecurity tools as routine features of conservation practice. While One Health and related approaches constitute a fairly expansive vision for pandemic prevention (Gruetzmacher et al 2021 ), these proposals have centrally called for the development of biosurveillance in the form of “integrated monitoring systems for early detection of, and response to, emerging infectious diseases events” (Hockings et al 2020 , p. 18). This includes the expansion of passive event monitoring to include certain high-risk human communities and animal populations (i.e., at human–wildlife interfaces) who act as “sentinels” of potentially dangerous infectious diseases.…”

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Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation

Smith

2021

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Zoonotic disease emergence has become a core concern of biodiversity conservation amid the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Major international conservation groups now comprehensively center larger human–nature imbalances not only as problems of global public health but as a core challenge of the conservation movement, alongside habitat destruction, biodiversity loss and climate change. There is, however, little consideration of how new biosecurity concerns might alter conservation practice with unexpected and potential harmful impacts on human communities, particularly in developing nations with significant human–wildlife interfaces. Reviewing emerging policy positions from key conservation organizations, this article argues that the proposed responses to the COVID-19 pandemic hold the potential to (a) amplify existing people-park conflicts, and (b) generate new tensions by integrating global systems of viral surveillance into biodiversity conservation. I conclude that the close integration of biosecurity concerns into conservation policies requires greater acknowledgment of the unique challenges for human communities. Supplementary Information The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-021-01576-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: How Have Biosecurity Concerns Entered Into Conservation Practice?mentioning

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Section: Implications In the Context Of Contemporary Conservation Debatesmentioning

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Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation

Smith

2021

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“…This kind of research could be pursued within One Health and Planetary Health ethical frameworks that recognize the ways in which concerns about public health, climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental justice and animal welfare are inextricably entwined (Destoumieux-Garzón et al, 2018;Gruetzmacher et al, 2021) and that attempt to tackle these issues collaboratively and across disciplines, drawing on expertise not only from medicine and the natural sciences, but also from ethics, law, religion, indigenous knowledge, behavioural economics, psychology and sociology. The linkages between the integrity of ecosystems and emerging zoonotic diseases still requires further research (Long term Research Need #1) and in the shorter term, the precautionary principle necessitates that strong action is taken while this additional research is undertaken (Evans et al, 2020).…”

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Getting out of Crises: Environmental, Social-ecological and Evolutionary Research Needed to Avoid Future Risks of Pandemics

Destoumieux-Garzón¹,

Matthies‐Wiesler²,

Bierne³

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The implementation of One Health/EcoHealth/Planetary Health approaches has been identified as key (i) to address the strong interconnections between risk for pandemics, climate change and biodiversity loss, and (ii) to develop and implement solutions to these interlinked crises. As a response to the multiple calls of scientists in that direction, we have put forward seven long term research questions regarding COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that are based on an effective integration of environmental, ecological, evolutionary, and social sciences to better anticipate and mitigate EIDs. Research needs cover the social-ecology of infectious disease agents, their evolution, the determinants of susceptibility of humans and animals to infections, and the human and ecological factors accelerating infectious disease emergence. For comprehensive investigation, they include the development of nature-based solutions to interlinked global planetary crises, addressing ethical and philosophical questions regarding the relationship of humans to nature and regarding transformative changes to safeguard the environment and human health. In support of this research, we propose the implementation of innovative multidisciplinary facilities embedded in social-ecosystems locally: the “ecological health observatories” and the “living laboratories”. This work has been carried out in the frame of the EC project HERA (www.HERAresearchEU.eu) that aims to set the priorities for an environment, climate and health research agenda in the EU by adopting a systemic approach in the face of global environmental change.

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“…However, while the One Health approach gains increasing momentum because of its multifaceted aspects and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, its practical application meets hindrances [ 16 ]. One Health implementation calls for identifying priority areas for added value of joint activities, and for the effective knowledge elicitation of experts from different and relevant disciplines.…”

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Assessing Environmental Factors within the One Health Approach

Humboldt-Dachroeden

Mantovani

2021

Medicina

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Background: One Health is a comprehensive and multisectoral approach to assess and examine the health of animals, humans and the environment. However, while the One Health approach gains increasing momentum, its practical application meets hindrances. This paper investigates the environmental pillar of the One Health approach, using two case studies to highlight the integration of environmental considerations. The first case study pertains to the Danish monitoring and surveillance programme for antimicrobial resistance, DANMAP. The second case illustrates the occurrence of aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in milk in dairy-producing ruminants in Italian regions. Method: A scientific literature search was conducted in PubMed and Web of Science to locate articles informing the two cases. Grey literature was gathered to describe the cases as well as their contexts. Results: 19 articles and 10 reports were reviewed and informed the two cases. The cases show how the environmental component influences the apparent impacts for human and animal health. The DANMAP highlights the two approaches One Health and farm to fork. The literature provides information on the comprehensiveness of the DANMAP, but highlights some shortcomings in terms of environmental considerations. The AFM1 case, the milk metabolite of the carcinogenic mycotoxin aflatoxin B1, shows that dairy products are heavily impacted by changes of the climate as well as by economic drivers. Conclusions: The two cases show that environmental conditions directly influence the onset and diffusion of hazardous factors. Climate change, treatment of soils, water and standards in slaughterhouses as well as farms can have a great impact on the health of animals, humans and the environment. Hence, it is important to include environmental considerations, for example, via engaging environmental experts and sharing data. Further case studies will help to better define the roles of environment in One Health scenarios.

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The Berlin principles on one health – Bridging global health and conservation

Cited by 97 publications

References 19 publications

Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation

Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation

Getting out of Crises: Environmental, Social-ecological and Evolutionary Research Needed to Avoid Future Risks of Pandemics

Assessing Environmental Factors within the One Health Approach

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