Thematic Areas

EcoHealth publications fall into one or more of the following thematic areas:

• Integration of biophysical, social and health sciences
• Ecosystem approaches to health, equity and sustainability
• Linking research and policy in ecology, health and sustainability
• Socioecological determinants of health inequalities
• Transdisciplinary teaching and research in ecosystem health and sustainability
• Local and indigenous knowledge of human and ecosystem health
• Multi-stakeholder problem solving for health and sustainability

• Global environmental degradation and human health
• International trade and travel, and emerging infectious disease
• Ecological perspectives on infectious and chronic disease
• Integrated assessments of human, wildlife and ecosystem health
• Interactions between built environments, land use change, agriculture, soil and water resources, and health
• Relationships between development, environment and health
• Population displacement stemming from environmental disasters

• Anthropogenic change and drivers of disease emergence in terrestrial and marine ecosystems
• Links between conservation and human health
• Ecology of infectious and zoonotic diseases at different scales
• Emerging infectious diseases affecting wildlife, domestic animals and plants in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems
• Relationship between ecosystems, biodiversity and human health
• Ecological health in terrestrial, freshwater & marine conservation