Journal article
How will climate change pathways and mitigation options alter incidence of vector-borne diseases? A framework for leishmaniasis in South and Meso-America
BV Purse, D Masante, N Golding, D Pigott, JC Day, S Ibañez-Bernal, M Kolb, L Jones
Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2017
Abstract
The enormous global burden of vector-borne diseases disproportionately affects poor people in tropical, developing countries. Changes in vector-borne disease impacts are often linked to human modification of ecosystems as well as climate change. For tropical ecosystems, the health impacts of future environmental and developmental policy depend on how vector-borne disease risks trade off against other ecosystem services across heterogeneous landscapes. By linking future socio-economic and climate change pathways to dynamic land use models, this study is amongst the first to analyse and project impacts of both land use and climate change on continental-scale patterns in vector-borne diseases. ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 283093 - The Role Of Biodiversity In climate change mitigatioN (ROBIN). BVP received additional support from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Natural Capital allocation to CEH (Natural Hazards HARM project NEC05100). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 283093-The Role Of Biodiversity In climate change mitigatioN (ROBIN). BVP received additional support from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Natural Capital allocation to CEH (Natural Hazards HARM project NEC05100).