RT Report
T1 UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report - Chapter 2
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 zoonotic disease
K1 environmental health
K1 biological diversity
SN 978-92-807-3553-6
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/36614
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/36614
NO The 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/20.500.11822/7664
NO https://www.unep.org/resources/frontiers-2016-emerging-issues-environmental-concern
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026