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Gemeenten staan voor de uitdaging steden hittebestendig te maken, maar weten vaak niet hoe dit eruit ziet en wat goed werkt. In de stad vraagt dit om maatregelen in zorg, aan gebouwen en in de buitenruimte. Dit rapport richt zich op de buitenruimte. Een hittebestendige inrichting voorkomt dat deze buitenruimte bij een hittegolf onleefbaar wordt, zo...
Dit rapport presenteert de voordelen van meer groen voor de gemeente Haarlem. Met hierin maatschappelijke baten en onderzoek naar hoe groen een bijdrage kan leveren aan de hittebestendigheid van de stad.
In Kazakhstan, plague outbreaks occur when its main host, the great gerbil, exceeds an abundance threshold. These live in family groups in burrows, which can be mapped using remote sensing. Occupancy (percentage of burrows occupied) is a good proxy for abundance and hence the possibility of an outbreak. Here we use time series of satellite images t...
The wildlife plague system in the Pre-Balkhash desert of Kazakhstan has been a subject of study for many years. Much progress has been made in generating a method of predicting outbreaks of the disease (infection by the gram negative bacterium Yersinia pestis) but existing methods are not yet accurate enough to inform public health planning. The pr...
Appendix S1 Examples of distribution patterns.
AimThe spatial structure of a population can strongly influence the dynamics of infectious diseases, yet rarely is the underlying structure quantified. A case in point is plague, an infectious zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Plague dynamics within the Central Asian desert plague focus have been extensively modelled in rece...
The prevalence and identity of Rickettsia and Bartonella in urban rat and flea populations were evaluated in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by molecular tools. An overall prevalence of 17% Bartonella species and 13% Rickettsia typhi, the agent of murine typhus, was found in the cosmopolitan rat species, Rattus rattus and Rattus n...
Plague (Yersinia pestis infection) is a vector-borne disease which caused millions of human deaths in the Middle Ages. The hosts of plague are mostly rodents, and the disease is spread by the fleas that feed on them. Currently, the disease still circulates amongst sylvatic rodent populations all over the world, including great gerbil (Rhombomys opi...
Plague is a zoonotic infectious disease present in great gerbil populations in Kazakhstan. Infectious disease dynamics are influenced by the spatial distribution of the carriers (hosts) of the disease. The great gerbil, the main host in our study area, lives in burrows, which can be recognized on high resolution satellite imagery. In this study, us...
Speculation on how the bacterium Yersinia pestis re-emerges after years of absence in the Prebalkhash region in Kazakhstan has been ongoing for half a century, but the mechanism is still unclear. One of the theories is that plague persists in its reservoir host (the great gerbil) in so-called hotspots, i.e. small regions in which the conditions rem...
Bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease and has a number of hot spots in the world among which southern Kazakhstan. In this study we investigated the use of earth observation to improve our understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns of this disease. The bubonic plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, are spread by fleas that feed on rodents. In sout...
