UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report - Chapter 2

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationScience Division
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-12T00:08:46Z
dc.date.available2021-08-12T00:08:46Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThe 20th century was a period of unprecedented ecological change, with dramatic reductions in natural ecosystems and biodiversity and equally dramatic increases in people and domestic animals. Never before have so many animals been kept by so many people—and never before have so many opportunities existed for pathogens to pass from wild and domestic animals through the biophysical environment to a!ect people causing zoonotic diseases or zoonoses. The result has been a worldwide increase in emerging zoonotic diseases, outbreaks of epidemic zoonoses as well as a rise in foodborne zoonoses globally, and a troubling persistence of neglected zoonotic diseases in poor countries. Full report is available at: https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7664en
dc.description.urihttps://www.unep.org/resources/frontiers-2016-emerging-issues-environmental-concern
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dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3553-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/36614
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number15 pages
dc.relation.ispartofUNEP Frontiers 2016 ReportT: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
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dc.subjectzoonotic disease
dc.subjectenvironmental health
dc.subjectbiological diversity
dc.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
dc.titleUNEP Frontiers 2016 Report - Chapter 2en
dc.typeTechnical report

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