Browsing by Author "Osofsky, Steven A."

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  • Building support for protected areas using a "One Health" perspective
    Osofsky, Steven A.; Kock, Richard A.; Kock, Michael D.; Kalema-Zikusoka, Gladys; Grahn, Richard; Leyland, Tim; Karesh, William B. (Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 2005)
    Issues affecting the interplay among wildlife health, the health of domestic animals, and human health are receiving inadequate attention from protected area managers. This chapter encourages an innovative framework, called the "One Health Paradigm", by taking a broad ecological definition of health that brings together many disciplines that too often have remained isolated from each other. This ecosystem approach to health issues is especially pertinent in the parts of the world where domestic animals often interact with the wild species of greatest interest to protected area managers. Steve Osofsky and his colleagues also provide a perspective on the many relationships between the health of wildlife and the health of people living in the often-remote areas adjacent to protected areas, where human health care is often in short supply. Building a more appropriate response to the problems of disease transmission across the interface between wildlife and domestic animals can also lead to improvements in the health status of the people living around protected areas, thereby building a more positive attitude towards the protected area and conservation authorities. This chapter also emphasizes the highly dynamic relationship between people, domestic animals, and wildlife, calling for significant investments in training, monitoring and research in order to ensure a healthy outcome for all concerned. The elements in the "One Health" paradigm provide a solid basis for building support for protected areas from those living near them and those working on human and animal health.
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    Case studies from Africa: The value of the 'One Health' entry point for facilitating conservation and development
    Osofsky, Steven A. (2007)
    This presentation offers a comprehensive explanation of how wildlife, landscape, and human health are all related and the advantages of using approaches to development that develop synergies across all three perspectives. Further, the presentation has limited content addressing how Animal Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) has uses this approach.
  • Case studies from Africa: The value of the 'One Health' entry point for facilitating conservation and development
    Osofsky, Steven A. (2008)
    This presentation offers a comprehensive explanation of how wildlife, landscape, and human health are all related and the advantages of using approaches to development that develop synergies across all three perspectives. Further, the presentation has limited content addressing how Animal Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) has uses this approach.
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    Livestock's long shadow: Environmental issues and options: A workshop
    Osofsky, Steven A. (2007)
    Livestock's long shadow takes into account the livestock sector's direct impacts, plus the environmental effects of related land use changes and production of the feed crops animals consume. It finds that expanding population and incomes worldwide, along with changing food preferences, are stimulating a rapid increase in demand for meat, milk and eggs, while globalization is boosting trade in both inputs and outputs.
  • The "One World, One Health" entry point to conservation and development success: Case studies from Africa
    Osofsky, Steven A. (2007)
    "If local people whose very livelihoods are often closely linked to livestock-keeping, for example, see expanding contact with wildlife as a threat to the health of their animals, or even to their own health in the case of zoonotic diseases, what hope do we have for building strong local constituencies for conservation, something the last several decades have hopefully taught us is sorely needed for sustained success? We obviously ignore local needs and perceptions at our conservation mission's peril.
  • Transboundary management of natural resources and the importance of a "One Health" approach: Perspectives on Southern Africa
    Osofsky, Steven A.; Cumming, D. H. M.; Kock, M. D. (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2008)
    This book chapter develops the concept that wildlife, livestock, and human health are all interrelated. In the "one health" approach, Osofsky (et al.) argue that it is best to create comprehensive policy to address the struggles of all three. Through outlining the history of the livestock and wildlife interface, it is demonstrated that the removal of fencing which inhibits wildlife migration patterns can actually contribute economically through inspiring greater levels of ecotourism.
  • The wildlife/livestock/human health interface and implications for conservation and development at the landscape scale
    Osofsky, Steven A. (2007)
    Dr. Osofsky also showed and led a discussion on an episode of PBS's Journey to Planet Earth series "The State of the Planet's Wildlife" that includes a segment on COMACO's work in Zambia.