TY - JOUR
T1 - Global change increases zoonotic risk, COVID-19 changes risk perceptions
T2 - a plea for urban nature connectedness
AU - Vanhove, Maarten P. M.
AU - Thys, Séverine
AU - Decaestecker, Ellen
AU - Antoine-Moussiaux, Nicolas
AU - De Man, Jeroen
AU - Hugé, J.J.A.
AU - Keune, Hans
AU - Sterckx, Ann
AU - Janssens de Bisthoven, Luc
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Ebola and COVID-19 are textbook emerging diseases influenced by humans. Ebola is often considered a result of exotic nature threatening health. Conversely, COVID-19, emerged in an urban environment, entails risks worldwide. Geographical, virological and demographic differences influence risk perceptions and responses to both diseases. Because ecological understanding of urban human-animal relations improves disease risk assessment, we call for ethnographical exploration of this interface. ‘Global Urban Confinement Measures’ impact health by influencing disease perceptions, limiting nature access, and strengthening inequities. To prevent and mitigate zoonotic pandemics and their consequences, policy should promote nature connectedness, concert with stakeholders, and integrate nature-city-inhabitant interactions.
AB - Ebola and COVID-19 are textbook emerging diseases influenced by humans. Ebola is often considered a result of exotic nature threatening health. Conversely, COVID-19, emerged in an urban environment, entails risks worldwide. Geographical, virological and demographic differences influence risk perceptions and responses to both diseases. Because ecological understanding of urban human-animal relations improves disease risk assessment, we call for ethnographical exploration of this interface. ‘Global Urban Confinement Measures’ impact health by influencing disease perceptions, limiting nature access, and strengthening inequities. To prevent and mitigate zoonotic pandemics and their consequences, policy should promote nature connectedness, concert with stakeholders, and integrate nature-city-inhabitant interactions.
KW - COVID
KW - Eco Health
KW - One Health
KW - urban environmental justice
U2 - 10.1080/23748834.2020.1805282
DO - 10.1080/23748834.2020.1805282
M3 - Article
SN - 2374-8834
VL - 5
SP - s131-s139
JO - Cities & Health
JF - Cities & Health
IS - S1
ER -