Relationship between biodiversity and public health via an ecosystem services

Some examples of relationships between health, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Its thus crucial that we alter the rapid loss in biodiversity.

Talk by Prof P. MARTENS

The talk of Prof P. Marten is available here

and his website can be consulted

Meeting with Prof D. Jhurry, VC of the University of Mauritius

Abstract: If we look at the many sustainability indicators that have been developed over the years, it is striking to see that animal and human health and wellbeing hardly plays a role. The reason that ‘health and ‘sustainability’ are not often mentioned together in one sentence is likely to be found in the fact that the sustainability debate has been hijacked in recent years by industry and governments. In this presentation, human-animal relationships will be linked to concepts and tools from sustainability science and some examples – climate change, biodiversity– was discussed.