4:45 p.m.
IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party Webinar - June 24, 15:00-16:00 CET
Landscape ecology and the covid-19 pandemics: How can landscape ecology
contribute to stop the spread of human diseases and to create safer
environments for human communities?
The debate around the COVID-19 pandemic has raised several questions
regarding how zoonoses are transmitted from ecosystems to humans, how
diseases spread within human societies, over regions and across
continents, and how effective are measures that countries and
communities adopt to fight pandemics. Most of these issues have a strong
spatial socioecological component.
Landscape ecology, both conceptually and methodologically, has the
potential to play an active role in explaining, describing and
forecasting the emergence and spread of zoonoses, to inform
decision-making on sustainable measures to minimize their spread and to
build spread safe landscapes. This is a research opportunity for
landscape ecology but mostly it is an opportunity for landscape
ecologists to be actively involved in the development of solutions for
evolving societal problems.
These are the main issues to be addressed by the IUFRO Landscape Ecology
Working Party in this webinar, the first of a series dedicated to
emerging issues in landscape ecology and society, with the contribution
of outstanding scientists with a global and integrative perspective of
science and society (see flyer attached).
We will inform you soon about the webinar platform.
On behalf of the IUFRO LE WP,
João Azevedo
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João Azevedo
Prof. Coordenador
Escola Superior Agrária/Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO)
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Address:
Campus de Santa Apolónia
5300-253 BRAGANÇA
PORTUGAL
Phone: (+351) 273 303 341
e-mail: jazevedo(a)ipb.pt
web: http://www.esa.ipb.pt/cv/jazevedo/
