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EXPLORING RESTORATION, REWILDING AND HUMAN HEALTH
Introduction
Over recent decades, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between ecosystem degradation due to urbanization, land-use change, agricultural intensification, biodiversity loss, and climate change, and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases in human populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgency of understanding these relationships, as well as understanding the extent to which ecosystem management and nature-based solutions can improve human health and well-being. Although there have been recent efforts to synthesize primary literature related to some of the drivers of disease emergence and transmission, for instance the relationship between biodiversity and human diseases, there has not yet been a systematic review of what is and is not known about the effect of ecological degradation (including deforestation and fragmentation), biodiversity loss, and ecosystem management on disease emergence and transmission, especially in the context of climate change. Towards that end, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Commission on Ecosystem Management has convened an “Ignite” Group” to:
identify the strength of relationships between disease emergence and its hypothesized drivers; and
apply these relationships to models for ecological restoration and rewilding.
Ignite team findings will be immediately shared and promoted as the global community seeks answers to improving human health. Your opinions will help us enormously with the next stage of our planning, and over the next few pages we're going to ask you some questions that explore the relationship between restoration, rewilding and human health. Please select the option that best reflects the extent to which you support or oppose the views expressed, and add your comments where possible.
The survey should take you 5 minutes to complete. Your responses are anonymous; we will not collect any information that could be used to identify you, and while we do ask a few questions about you, we are only collecting general demographic to help us interpret responses.
Your participation in the survey is entirely voluntary, but if you are happy to help, please click yes below to get started. If you click no you'll be taken straight away to an exit page. By clicking yes you:
have read and understood the information presented above about this study
have been provided with contact details to ask further questions if needed and have been given sufficient information
understand that you are free to withdraw from this survey at any time, and without having to give a reason for withdrawal
give permission for us to analyse and quote your anonymous responses
For further information on this project please contact Professor Cara Nelson: cara.nelson@mso.umt.edu
For further information on the survey please contact Professor Ian Convery: ian.convery@cumbria.ac.uk
