Deforestation and human health

• How does deforestation affect humans?

  Over the past two decades, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that deforestation, by triggering a complex cascade of events, creates the conditions for a range of deadly pathogens—such as Nipah and Lassa viruses, and the parasites that cause malaria and Lyme disease—to spread to people.

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• How does deforestation lead to increased infectious diseases in humans?

  Over the past two decades, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that deforestation, by triggering a complex cascade of events, creates the conditions for a range of deadly pathogens—such as Nipah and Lassa viruses, and the parasites that cause malaria and Lyme disease—to spread to people.

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• What are the benefits of reforestation for humans?

  Studies also show that spending time under a tree improves your mood and lowers blood pressure. Spending time around trees also helps you focus, as it allows your brain to recover from mental fatigue that results from directing your attention towards normal activities like work or school.

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• What are the global impacts of deforestation?

  Deforestation is likely to create a drier, hotter climate in the tropics. Tropical deforestation may also affect rainfall patterns far outside the tropics. Deforestation can also turn the tropics into a larger source of carbon emissions, which increases the greenhouse effect and global warming.

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• [PDF File]Article Tropical deforestation outpacing climate change ...

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  productivity and increases heat strain, but the extent to which deforestation-driven temperature change affects people across the tropics is unknown. Using satellite data combined with worker health guidelines, we show that warming associated with deforestation is already impacting human health and well-being in low-latitude countries.

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• Biodiversity & Infectious Diseases . Questions & Answers

  potentially creating new opportunities for disease emergence and poor health outcomes both in humans and species. Biodiversity is declining globally at unprecedented rates in human history, and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, impacting human health worldwide in a variety of ways.

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• [PDF File]Deforestation and Health Implications - Health21 Initiative

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  However, the ultimate impact of deforestation is on human health. Social and economic implications are not left out. For instance, deforestation increases the vulnerability to landslides which are capable of causing loss of lives and property. Health is an inevitable requirement for optimal functioning. Without health nothing can be achieved.

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• Forests,Deforestation and Human Health by Theresa C. Aloo

  human health in general and find out specific human health conditions that may be attributable to trees and deforestation. Methodology This paper is based on a review of literature and a market survey in Nairobi. The market survey was conducted for three weeks in January 2004. The aim of the literature review was to find specific references to ...

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• [PDF File]WHAT FORESTS AND DEFORESTATION HAVE TO DO WITH OUR HEALTH

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  indirectly linked to human health and well-being, whether we live within them, such as indigenous and traditional populations, or in its surroundings, or even far away, in cities or rural areas. This is why deforestation and fires in the Amazon and other biomes, such as the Cerrado, increase the

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• [PDF File]Amazon deforestation and fires are a hazard to public health

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  human health. Credit: Felipe Werneck/Ibama, CC BY 2.0 1/3. Wildfires are increasingly common, and their smoky emissions can ... more fires—but direct human action, such as deforestation, drives up

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