Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases
University of British Columbia · University of Washington · +8 more institutions
Abstract
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis. Intergovernmental reports have drawn focus to the escalating climate and biodiversity crises and the connections between them, but interactions among all three pressures have been largely overlooked. Non-linearities and dampening and reinforcing interactions among pressures make considering interconnections essential to anticipating planetary challenges. In this Review, we define and exemplify the causal pathways that link the three global pressures of climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious disease. A literature assessment…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 71.62
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 215
Authors
10Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Transformative learning
- Infectious disease (medical specialty)
- Environmental resource management
- Planetary boundaries
- Global warming
- Environmental planning
- Climate action
Funding
- SKStanford King Center on Global Development
- NSNational Science FoundationAwards: DEB-171728, DBI-1349865, DEB-220015
- DKDeutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- TFTula FoundationAward: DEB-1518681
- FUFondation Université Grenoble Alpes
- USUnited States-Israel Binational Science FoundationAward: 2021030
- UOUniversity of British Columbia
- NINational Institutes of HealthAward: Al156866
- SWStanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- NSNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- FIFogarty International CenterAwards: R01AI102918, R35GM133439, R01AI168097
- SUStanford University Center for Innovation in Global Health