Human health and wetlands are closely linked. Wetlands provide vital ecosystem services that contribute to human health and well-being, such as water provision and water purification. However, increasing human pressures are degrading wetland systems and modifying water quality and quantity. Developing strategies that support both wetland ecological integrity and human health is central to wetland management, such as through implementing the Ramsar Convention and other frameworks. Understanding both the benefits wetlands provide for human health as well as the health effects of diminished wetland services is important for fostering sustainable management.
Difference between In-Situ and Ex-Situ conservation
Conservation of biodiversity and genetic resources helps protect, maintain and recover endangered animal and plant species. There are mainly two strategies for the conservation of wildlife: In-situ conservation and Ex-situ conservation. Although, both the strategies aim to maintain and recover endangered species, they are different from each other. Let us see how they differ from each other!
DEFINITION OF PHYLLOSPHERE
PARTS OF PHYLLOSPHERE
MICROORGANISM OF PHYLLOSPHERE
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF STEM (CAULOSPHERE)
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF LEAVES(PHYLLOPLANE)
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF FLOWER (ANTHOSPHERE)
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF FRUIT(CARPOSPHERE)
FACTORS INFLUENCING MICROBIAL GROWTH AND ACTIVITIES
POSITIVE EFFECT OF PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS
NEGATIVE EFFECT OF PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS
Difference between In-Situ and Ex-Situ conservation
Conservation of biodiversity and genetic resources helps protect, maintain and recover endangered animal and plant species. There are mainly two strategies for the conservation of wildlife: In-situ conservation and Ex-situ conservation. Although, both the strategies aim to maintain and recover endangered species, they are different from each other. Let us see how they differ from each other!
DEFINITION OF PHYLLOSPHERE
PARTS OF PHYLLOSPHERE
MICROORGANISM OF PHYLLOSPHERE
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF STEM (CAULOSPHERE)
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF LEAVES(PHYLLOPLANE)
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF FLOWER (ANTHOSPHERE)
PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS OF FRUIT(CARPOSPHERE)
FACTORS INFLUENCING MICROBIAL GROWTH AND ACTIVITIES
POSITIVE EFFECT OF PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS
NEGATIVE EFFECT OF PHYLLOSPHERE MICROORGANISMS
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Rising human populations are largely responsible for the environmental degradation that ecological restoration seeks to repair.
the discipline of ecological restoration is likely to face its greatest challenges at a time when human capital and economic resources will be inadequate for the scale of the problem.
Restoration of damaged ecosystems is receiving increasing attention worldwide as awareness increases that humanity must sustain ecosystem structure, functioning, and diversity for its own wellbeing.
Restoration rebuilds an ecosystem little different than the pristine ecosystem that was degraded. It is done to the physical environment and to plants in restoration.
Definition of ecosystem restoration: ‘the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed’.
, there are many approaches to restoration, and the choice of approach should arguably be based on –
1. which is most appropriate given the objectives.
2. which provides the greatest likelihood of success.
These efforts may be conducted on either a small-scale (e.g., tree planting) or
May involve major human and technical efforts (e.g., re-creation of wetlands, acid lake neutralization).
Principles For Restoration
KEY ACTIVITIES FOR ECOSYTEM RESTORSTION
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Host pathogen interactions - This presentation is about the Host pathogen interaction played between bacteria virus and the human body and it also explains about the different protein and enzymes secreted by pathogens to cause infection and diseases in human like the release of endotoxin and exotoxin.
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Microbial interaction and its relationship, Fate of Viral infection, Positive Interaction and Negative Interaction, Syntrophism, Protocooperation, Quorum sensing, Biofilm formation, Plastisphere.
This presentation offers a bird's eye view about community dynamics in general and ecological succession in particular with special reference to Climax vegetation.
Rising human populations are largely responsible for the environmental degradation that ecological restoration seeks to repair.
the discipline of ecological restoration is likely to face its greatest challenges at a time when human capital and economic resources will be inadequate for the scale of the problem.
Restoration of damaged ecosystems is receiving increasing attention worldwide as awareness increases that humanity must sustain ecosystem structure, functioning, and diversity for its own wellbeing.
Restoration rebuilds an ecosystem little different than the pristine ecosystem that was degraded. It is done to the physical environment and to plants in restoration.
Definition of ecosystem restoration: ‘the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed’.
, there are many approaches to restoration, and the choice of approach should arguably be based on –
1. which is most appropriate given the objectives.
2. which provides the greatest likelihood of success.
These efforts may be conducted on either a small-scale (e.g., tree planting) or
May involve major human and technical efforts (e.g., re-creation of wetlands, acid lake neutralization).
Principles For Restoration
KEY ACTIVITIES FOR ECOSYTEM RESTORSTION
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Presentation of Dr. Lydia Leonardo, College of Public Health, UP Manila, on "Impacts of Climate Change to Health," during the UP Manila Conference on Global Climate Change, held October 22-23, 2009 at the Pearl Garden Hotel, Manila.
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How the concept of Sustainable Development evolved in India
pain areas regarding sustainable development
Scientific Facts on Biodiversity A Global OutlookGreenFacts
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has set, in 2002, the ambitious target of reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
A number of indicators of biological diversity were created to assess progress towards meeting that target.
Why is it important to reduce biodiversity loss? Can the 2010 Biodiversity Target be reached and what actions are needed to ensure that it is?
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Three major problems associated with our management of the world's ecosystems are already causing significant harm to some people, particularly the poor, and unless addressed will substantially diminish the long term benefits we obtain from ecosystems First, approximately 60 15 out of 24 of the ecosystem services examined during the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are being degraded or used unsustainably, including fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water purification, and the regulation of regional and local climate, natural hazards, and pests. The full costs of the loss and degradation of these ecosystem services are difficult to measure, but the available evidence demonstrates that they are substantial and growing. Many ecosystem services have been degraded as a consequence of actions taken to increase the supply of other services, such as food. These trade offs often shift the costs of degradation from one group of people to another or defer costs to future generations. Second, there is established but incomplete evidence that changes being made in ecosystems are increasing the likelihood of nonlinear changes in ecosystems including accelerating, abrupt, and potentially irreversible changes that have important consequences for human well being. Dr. Anshumala Chandangar "Biophysical Foundations of Production and Consumption of Human Economy Sources and Sink Functions of the Ecosystem" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd47663.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/economics/other/47663/biophysical-foundations-of-production-and-consumption-of-human-economy-sources-and-sink-functions-of-the-ecosystem/dr-anshumala-chandangar
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Paul OUEDRAOGO - Human Health and Wetlands Health are linked
1. Human Health and Wetlands
Health are linked
Paul Ouédraogo,
Senior Regional Advisor for
Africa
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
4th International Disaster and
Risk Conference (IDRC) Davos
2012 (26-30 August 2012)
Plenary Session: Linking One Health and Hyogo
Framework for Action
2. Wetland are part of our natural wealth
Provide us with services–
entirely free of charge –
making a vital contribution to
human health and well-
being.
Increasing pressure on water resources and the threats
posed by climate change, the need to maximise these
benefits has never been greater or more urgent.
3. Statement: unsustainable use modified Water
Quality and Quantity
Technology, engineering and medicine
Successfully water and wetlands
foster human health.
Increasing rates of consumption ,
alterations to land use and land cover
and irrigation, all associated with
agriculture, urban expansion, and global
environmental change,
modified wetland systems, in terms of
both water quality and water quantity.
4. Framework of coherence
Central for wetland
management: developing
strategies that support
the maintenance of both
wetland ecological
character and human
health.
Through the
implementation of the
Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran,
1971), One Health
concept and Hyogo
Framework for Action and
other processes.
5. Ecosystem services and benefits for human health
Often seen only as the source of vector or waterborne diseases, and a
widespread misinterpretation of wetlands as ‘the problem’ for human
health requires careful treatment and attention.
Better land and water
management is required,
including a richer sense of the
roles of biodiversity in parasite
regulation, to emphasize the
benefits that humans derive from
wetlands.
Understanding these and other
benefits provide the basis for
fostering human health and well-
being while managing wetlands.
6. Health Issues Examples of Examples of Health effects, health Examples or
relevant wetland disruptions to outcomes resulting case studies
ecosystem wetland from diminished
services ecosystems service
1. Sufficient Water
Some people are often highly dependent
2. Nutrition
on wetland ecosystem services and are
3. Exposure to
pollution
directly harmed by their degradation; in
other instances wetlands are the basis of
4. Infection economic structures and are embedded
5. Exposure to in cultural expressions.
physical hazards
6. Mental health/
These benefits can also determine
psychological human health, directly and indirectly.
well-being
7. Livelihood More effective treatment of the tradeoffs
between different forms of benefits will
8. Lifestyle
be required.
9.Medication
7. Healthy wetlands, healthy people, and other
relationships
Humans: agents for the maintenance or restoration
of ecosystems. And the health of humans a measure
of the health of the ecosystem.
A claim to ‘healthy ecosystems’ comes
from judgments about the desirability
of a certain ecological character
Ways of perceiving the relationship ‘healthy wetlands,
healthy people’. Human health outcomes can be
either adverse or improved, depending upon whether
or not ecosystem services are either degraded or
maintained/enhanced
8. Two paradoxes exist
First, degraded ecosystem services can provide
benefits to people in such a way that there are
positive health outcomes.
Secondly, maintained or enhanced ecosystem
services can have problematic consequences for
human well-being.
Human interactions in wetland ecosystems are
complex and involve choices: tradeoffs between
benefits that will occur when wetlands are
developed or in which some services are
promoted or favoured over others.
Need to assess the direct benefits and potential
losses when managing wetlands to reach
compromises and agreed tradeoffs between
services and beneficiaries.
9. Others wetlands related issues
Wetland management for water
and sanitation
Wetland management for food
security
Wetland management for
livelihoods and lifestyles
Wetland management: changes in
perspectives required
Wetland management: higher
levels of policy development
Wetland management for reducing the risks of
exposures to disease
Wetlands management for psycho-social health,
and the effects of disasters
10. Wetland management for reducing the risks
of exposures to disease
Humans can be exposed to health risks in
wetland ecosystems: toxic materials, water-
borne or vector borne diseases.
While steps can be taken to ameliorate these
risks, the risks can increase (sometimes
dramatically) if disruption occurs to
ecosystems and the services they provide.
Human health can be affected by acute or
chronic exposure to toxicants, through the
media of water, wetland sediments, or even
air when sediments become desiccated and
airborne or burnt.
11. Role of human behaviours and activities
The nature of these exposures is
exacerbated by human behaviours
and activities and they can result
whenever ecosystem services have
been eroded – especially when the
hydrological services that maintain
biological, geological and chemical
processes have been distorted by
human activities of over extraction
of water.
Drainage and diversions of water are the two activities responsible
for the majority of such changes.
12. Wetlands management for psycho-social
health, and the effects of disasters
Wetlands become embedded in the human psyche in
formulations of “sense of place”. Changes to wetlands can
influence a person’s mental health by becoming a source of
psychological stress.
Physical hazards, externalities
like floods, earthquakes,
cyclones, and drought, can
magnify any of these
exposures.
The pathways to such disease
events may affect a spectrum
of community members.
13. Call for Partnership
Universities, research centres, social scientists, risk management:
• Communities are complex and often not united. There
will be differences in wealth, social status and labour
activity between people living in the same area and there
may be more serious divisions within the community
• On modelling the social complexity and
the decision analytical model.
• Put a strong emphasis on Adaptive
Management coupled with a
decision analytical model.
14. Resilience strategies
To be in line with the theme of
the conference it makes sense to
strategy on integrative risk
management perspective where
risks are interrelated and require
multidisciplinary approaches and
initiatives.
This PPT shows evidence of the
connection between human
health and ecosystem health.
This is part of the One Health
concept. Ramsar is participating
in the Scientific Task Force on
Avian Influenza.
15. Resilience strategies: One Health
Develop strategies that support the maintenance of
both wetland ecological character and human health.
Wetland managers must have information that will
allow them to articulate, and respond professionally.
Need more effective treatment of the tradeoffs
between different forms of benefits will be required.
Need to assess carefully the direct benefits and
potential direct and indirect losses when managing
wetlands and, in some instances, to reach compromises
and agreed tradeoffs between services and beneficiaries.
16. Resilience strategies: Capacity building
Another strategy is putting greater emphasis on what communities can
do for themselves and how to strengthen their capacities.
Only an integrative risk management approach will ensure sustainable
health management in a changing climate, resource depletion, wetlands
and biodiversity loss, land degradation, water and food insecurity, over
population and development challenges globally.
The characteristics of resilient community include the wise use of
wetlands ecosystem through the implementation of integrated
environmental and natural resource management approaches that
incorporate disaster risk reduction, including flood and drought
management.
This is one of the Hyogo Framework priorities for action: Reduce the
underlying risk factors.