In the past, environmental managers could behave as if they were managing a “natural” system to which they were external; criteria for successful management could be derived from historical data or from current pristine systems elsewhere in the world. With a few localized exceptions, this approac...
Waltner-Toews, D.
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Kay, J.J.
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Neudoerffer, C.
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Gitau, T.
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[Perspective changes everything: Managing ecosystems from the inside out]
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Perspective changes everything: Managing ecosystems from the inside out
Zoonotic diseases will maintain a high level of public policy attention in the coming decades. From the spectre of a global pandemic to anxieties over agricultural change, urbanization, social inequality and threats to natural ecosystems, effectively preparing and responding to endemic and emergi...
Bardosh, K.L.
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Scoones, J.C.
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Grace, Delia
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Kalema-Zikusoka, G.
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Jones, K.E.
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Balogh, K. de.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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Bett, Bernard K.
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Welburn, S.C.
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Mumford, E.
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Dzingirai, V.
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[Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa?]
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Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa?
ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This paper describes the development of an Ecohealth Trainer Manual that was published in May 2013 and adapted to a Southeast Asian audience. This manual was part of a project entitled the Field Building Leadership Initiative (FBLI), launched in October 2011, which aims to bu...
Fèvre, Eric M.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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Jing, F.
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Kittayapong, P.
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Adisasmito, W.
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Dinh Xuan Tung
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Jianchu Xu
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Hung Nguyen-Viet
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[Création d’un manuel pédagogique comme action collaborative de promotion de l’écosanté en Asie du Sud-Est]
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Création d’un manuel pédagogique comme action collaborative de promotion de l’écosanté en Asie du Sud-Est
Sleeping sickness is a parasitic, vector-borne disease, carried by the tsetse fly and prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease continues to pose a public health burden in Uganda, which experienced a widespread outbreak in 1900-1920, and a more recent outbreak in 1976-1989. The disease continu...
Berrang Ford, L.
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Odiit, M.
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Maiso, F.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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McDermott, John J.
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[Sleeping sickness in Uganda: Revisiting current and historical distributions]
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Sleeping sickness in Uganda: Revisiting current and historical distributions
Describing agroecosystems and assessing their sustainability and health has become of great interest to researchers, Development agents and communities. Such assessments are frequently carried out using a group of carefully chosen attributes, known as indicators. This was the approach adopted in ...
Gitau, T.
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McDermott, John J.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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McDermott, B.
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[Use of correspondence analysis in agroecosystem health and sustainability assessment]
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Use of correspondence analysis in agroecosystem health and sustainability assessment
Gallopín, Gilberto C.
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Kay, J
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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Raez Luna, EF
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Murray, T
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[Agroecosystem development in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon: a catastrophe theory representation]
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Agroecosystem development in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon: a catastrophe theory representation
Rowley, T
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Gallopín, Gilberto C.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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Raez Luna, EF
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[Developing an integrated conceptual framework to guide research on agricultural sustainability for tropical agroecosystems CIAT-University of Guelph Project]
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Developing an integrated conceptual framework to guide research on agricultural sustainability for tropical agroecosystems CIAT-University of Guelph Project
Grace, Delia
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Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
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Waltner-Toews, D.
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[Participatory and integrative approaches to food safety in developing country cities]
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Participatory and integrative approaches to food safety in developing country cities