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Pandemics, health and global change: how are they connected?
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- What is the connection between environmental change and diseases such as coronaviruses?
- How strong is this connection, can we really blame bats, and what does the future of disease risks look like?
What is the connection between environmental change and diseases such as coronaviruses? How strong is this connection, and what does the future of disease risks look like?
In this episode, Victor Galaz, deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, talks to professor Kate Jones from University College London and Peter Søgaard Jørgensen from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Both are experts on the links between ecology, disease and global change.
Books and publications mentioned during the talk
The Stockholm Paragidm: Climate change and emerging disease
Doughnut economics, Kate Raworth
Coevolutionary governance of antibiotic and pesticide resistance
Evolution in the Anthropocene: informing governance and policy
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
About Rethink Talks
Rethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre’s multimedia podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates on for instance COVID-19.
