Sentences with phrase «measure planetary health»

Victor and Kennel argue that global temperature change isn't a good way to measure planetary health.

Not exact matches

Conventional measures of public health overlook these trade - offs, especially at a global level, so a planetary health approach is required to ensure that public health interventions like draining swamps to curb disease - carrying mosquitoes don't lead to water shortages that could claim lives.

It is worth noting though that the science behind planetary health is still being established, meaning that devising and testing ecosystems - based solutions at the local level, as a complement to traditional public health measures, will be critical to building the field.

According to Lynas, Rockström and his associates — referred to by Lynas as the «planetary boundaries experts group» — believe that they have identified nine fundamental measures of the planet's ecological health that human development must not interfere with, if ecological catastrophe is to be avoided.