TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating health and environmental impact analysis
AU - Reis, S.
AU - Morris, G.
AU - Fleming, L. E.
AU - Beck, S.
AU - Taylor, T.
AU - White, M.
AU - Depledge, M. H.
AU - Steinle, S.
AU - Sabel, C. E.
AU - Cowie, H.
AU - Hurley, F.
AU - Dick, J. Mc P.
AU - Smith, R. I.
AU - Austen, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this work was supported in part by the European Regional Development Fund Programme 2007 to 2013 and European Social Fund Convergence Programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to the European Centre for Environment and Health (University of Exeter) . The work on integrating concepts for ecosystem services assessments and HIA has been funded in the frame of the Network of Excellence LIAISE: Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise , funded under the EU 7 th Framework Programme (grant agreement no.: 243826 ), the Scottish Government funded research project Environmental Determinants of Public Health in Scotland (EDPHiS) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding through the Valuing Nature Network (grant number NE/I015086/1 ). The work on integrating ecosystem services and public health is also partly funded by the EU 7 th Framework Programme (FP7/2007 – 2013) under Grant Agreement No. 266445 for the project Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors (VECTORS).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Scientific investigations have progressively refined our understanding of the influence of the environment on human health, and the many adverse impacts that human activities exert on the environment, from the local to the planetary level. Nonetheless, throughout the modern public health era, health has been pursued as though our lives and lifestyles are disconnected from ecosystems and their component organisms. The inadequacy of the societal and public health response to obesity, health inequities, and especially global environmental and climate change now calls for an ecological approach which addresses human activity in all its social, economic and cultural complexity. The new approach must be integral to, and interactive, with the natural environment.We see the continuing failure to truly integrate human health and environmental impact analysis as deeply damaging, and we propose a new conceptual model, the ecosystems-enriched Drivers, Pressures, State, Exposure, Effects, Actions or 'eDPSEEA' model, to address this shortcoming. The model recognizes convergence between the concept of ecosystems services which provides a human health and well-being slant to the value of ecosystems while equally emphasizing the health of the environment, and the growing calls for 'ecological public health' as a response to global environmental concerns now suffusing the discourse in public health.More revolution than evolution, ecological public health will demand new perspectives regarding the interconnections among society, the economy, the environment and our health and well-being. Success must be built on collaborations between the disparate scientific communities of the environmental sciences and public health as well as interactions with social scientists, economists and the legal profession. It will require outreach to political and other stakeholders including a currently largely disengaged general public.The need for an effective and robust science-policy interface has never been more pressing. Conceptual models can facilitate this by providing theoretical frameworks and supporting stakeholder engagement process simplifications for inherently complex situations involving environment and human health and well-being. They can be tools to think with, to engage, to communicate and to help navigate in a sea of complexity. We believe models such as eDPSEEA can help frame many of the issues which have become the challenges of the new public health era and can provide the essential platforms necessary for progress.
AB - Scientific investigations have progressively refined our understanding of the influence of the environment on human health, and the many adverse impacts that human activities exert on the environment, from the local to the planetary level. Nonetheless, throughout the modern public health era, health has been pursued as though our lives and lifestyles are disconnected from ecosystems and their component organisms. The inadequacy of the societal and public health response to obesity, health inequities, and especially global environmental and climate change now calls for an ecological approach which addresses human activity in all its social, economic and cultural complexity. The new approach must be integral to, and interactive, with the natural environment.We see the continuing failure to truly integrate human health and environmental impact analysis as deeply damaging, and we propose a new conceptual model, the ecosystems-enriched Drivers, Pressures, State, Exposure, Effects, Actions or 'eDPSEEA' model, to address this shortcoming. The model recognizes convergence between the concept of ecosystems services which provides a human health and well-being slant to the value of ecosystems while equally emphasizing the health of the environment, and the growing calls for 'ecological public health' as a response to global environmental concerns now suffusing the discourse in public health.More revolution than evolution, ecological public health will demand new perspectives regarding the interconnections among society, the economy, the environment and our health and well-being. Success must be built on collaborations between the disparate scientific communities of the environmental sciences and public health as well as interactions with social scientists, economists and the legal profession. It will require outreach to political and other stakeholders including a currently largely disengaged general public.The need for an effective and robust science-policy interface has never been more pressing. Conceptual models can facilitate this by providing theoretical frameworks and supporting stakeholder engagement process simplifications for inherently complex situations involving environment and human health and well-being. They can be tools to think with, to engage, to communicate and to help navigate in a sea of complexity. We believe models such as eDPSEEA can help frame many of the issues which have become the challenges of the new public health era and can provide the essential platforms necessary for progress.
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Environment
KW - Health
KW - Impact assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84956692199&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.puhe.2013.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.puhe.2013.07.006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24099716
AN - SCOPUS:84956692199
SN - 0033-3506
VL - 129
SP - 1383
EP - 1389
JO - Public Health
JF - Public Health
IS - 10
ER -