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Announcement of paper discussion at the
Internet Conference on Integrated Bio-Systems
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25860/icibs
Date: June 8 to June 30.
Title: Health and peri-urban natural resource production
by Martin H. Birley and K Lock, International Health Impact
Assessment Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, England.
URL of Paper: http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73327/icibs/birley
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About the Author
Martin Birley has a BSc and MSc in engineering and a PhD in
insect ecology. He is senior lecturer in medical entomology at
the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is also manager of
the WHO Collaborating Centre for environmental management for
vector control and the International Health Impact Assessment
Research Group. He is a member of the steering committee
of the WHO/FAO panel of experts for environmental management.
He has acted as consultant to the WHO, FAO, Asian Development
Bank, World Bank, British ODA (DFID), and various private
environmental consultants.
Abstract of Paper
Cities are expanding rapidly and provide large markets for
natural products. These products may be produced in peri-urban
areas that are also sinks for the city's waste. The opportunities
for increased production in peri-urban areas are immense, but
require careful research. All interventions can have unexpected
impacts - for better or worse. Such impacts affect the
environment, the community and human health. A project that
threatens human health is neither sustainable nor properly
cost-effective and may do more harm than good. A large number
of studies have described urban health issues, but little
health research has focused on peri-urban natural resource
production. A detailed review was commissioned of peri-urban,
natural resource linked health issues and this formed the
basis from which the following account is derived. The health
issues of concern include vector-borne diseaases such
as malaria, dengue and filariasis whose control is stongly
dependent on integrated management.
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