LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Planetary Health, Planetary Boundaries, Middle Ages
13 Jul 2018
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Objectives: links between human health and environmental change, the planetary boundaries framework, decline of pollinators, planetary health, the earth system. After billions of years, they have integrated into the systems that we know today. Air, water, land, and life: links to human activity. Our planet, has a foundation for how society functions. In return to the activities we carry out, we impact biodiversity (diff goods that are taken out of the environment) To transform all of this, we will be creating waste (global distribution like fossil fuel burning) How we interact with the environment means that what we do impacts the support system that is the foundation for human health. Influence on human health of changes related to globalization. Impacts on population health are impacted by the 3 circles above. We are more exposed to new cultures now than we were before. All these interactions are going to drive changes in terms of the environment.
