Hillel S Koren's research while affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other places
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Publications (5)
The built environment (BE) affects ecosystems, ecosystem services and human health
and well being. While, formally, the BE ranges from the smallest hut to the largest
city, this chapter focuses upon the health effects of urban areas, which increasingly are
the preferred human habitat. Urban areas have many attractive and beneficial
influences to hu...
This article categorizes four kinds of adverse effects to human health caused by ecosystem change: direct, mediated, modulated, and systems failure. The effects are categorized on their scale, complexity, and lag-time. Some but not all of these can be classified as resulting from reduced ecosystem services. The articles also explores the impacts th...
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" states the WHO. However, the current focus in this important area seems to be on reducing diseases, while less attention is paid on aspects how to increase the well-being of populations. This paper reviews three examples where w...
Despite that a significant body of published literature exists in the complex area of interconnection among the environment, ecosystems, and human activity, relatively little attention has been paid to the integration and analysis of ecological and human health data in the form of a conceptual model. Human and ecological health protection generally...
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... The development of shared concepts is a key to KB in a complex and inter-connected world characterized by changing environmental and health conditions and challenges . For instance, ecosystem health concepts have evolved to link environmental assessments with human health (Butler and Oluoch-Kosura, 2001; Brunner et al., 2009), and have been extended to ''One Health'' integrating human, domestic animal and wildlife health (Kaplan et al., 2009). Environmental and health integration has also come into focus with ecosystem services, and ''Green care'' has taken such concepts to active interventions. ...
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... The reason is that in the urban environment, the park belongs to an artificial ecosystem; the internal plants have the attributes of urban plants and their spatial arrangement is influenced by planners. However, roads and buildings in the buffer zone, as a corridor in the landscape, increase the fragmentation of the landscape (Koren and Butler 2006;Peng et al. 2022). This can threaten the environment within the park itself, as the connections of matter circulation and energy flow are broken. ...
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... Cambios globales como los movimientos migratorios masivos, la emergencia climática, los desastres naturales, la contaminación del aire y el agua o la reducción de los recursos hídricos están presionando el stock de servicios ecosistémicos esenciales para sostener la vida y las actividades humanas (Lafortezza & Chen, 2016). En tal sentido, uno de los aspectos en que más se ha apreciado esta relación entre los servicios ecosistémicos y las actividades humanas es el campo de la salud humana (Butler et al., 2005). ...
... Urbanization, disruption of natural ecosystem, land-use and climate change are risk factors of mosquito-borne infections [44,97]. Our study refutes the deeply ingrained preconception of green roof harboring mosquitoes. ...
... In 1948, when the World Health Organization was founded, health was defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity [23]. Among the many aspects that affect human health, a healthy living environment is among the most crucial factors for enhancing health and happiness [24]. ...
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