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OTHER SOURCES AND RESOURCES
The history, characterization, and re-emergence of zoonoses are addressed in a rapidly expanding variety of scientific journals and technical reports, many of them digitized, and I have searched through most of them over the past decades for material for teaching and research. Organizations working on these issues, each with their own journals, conferences, and online resources, have expanded exponentially since the first edition of this book came out, and I will only describe those few with which I have had personal experience.
The international Resilience Alliance, brought together by ecologist C.S. Holling in the 1990s, has contributed a great deal to our ability to develop appropriate response and management strategies that will promote both ecological resilience and human well-being. There are other, similar networks, many of which have their own perspectives, purposes, and institutional supports. Various One Health platforms and initiatives, integrating animal and human health at a policy level, tend to work “top-down” and are associated with academia, as well as official national and international organizations such as WHO and its sister, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Our more loosely organized Post-Normal group focuses more generally on the philosophical, theoretical, and practical challenges of science being used for policy. The International Association for Ecology and Health (IAEH), EcoHealth Alliance, and related organizations are oriented toward research into EIDs. EcoHealth International (which grew out of, and separated from, the IAEH), is a complement to both the research and One Health initiatives, being rooted in locally driven, community-based research and activism. The Communities of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health, such as CoPEH-Canada and COPEH-LAC in Latin American and the Caribbean, have developed courses and training materials and linked communities, researchers, and teachers both online and in person. Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières–Canada and VSF International/Vétérinaires sans Frontières work in communities throughout the world, integrating the health and well-being of people, other animals, and the ecosystems that support us. Having been active in most of these initiatives, I’ve found that they all have roles to play in creating a more sustainable, healthy planet.
These networks, toggling between on-the-ground work and theory, personal contact and social networking, are developing a new kind of engaged, active science capable of asking, and perhaps answering, the questions too big to be contained in the laboratory. Among those questions, one is central: How can a convivial human existence on the earth be created and prolonged?