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Green cities and vector-borne diseases: emerging concerns and opportunities
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Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, nature-based solutions such as urban greening e.g. public gardens, urban forests, parks and street trees, which aim to protect, sustainably manage or restore an ecosystem, have emerged as a promising tool for improving the health and well-being of an ever-increasing urban population. While urban greening efforts have undeniable benefits for human health and the biological communities inhabiting these green zones, disease vector populations may also be affected, possibly promoting greater pathogen transmission and the emergence of infectious diseases such as dengue, West Nile fever, malaria, leishmaniosis and tick-borne diseases. Evidence for the impact of urban green areas on vector-borne disease (VBD) transmission is scarce. Furthermore, because of vast disparities between cities, variation in green landscapes and differing scales of observation, findings are often contradictory; this calls for careful assessment of how urban greening affects VBD risk. Improved understanding of the effect of urban greening on VBDs would support planning, monitoring and management of green spaces in cities to sustainably mitigate VBD risks for surrounding urban populations.
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The impacts of climate change on food insecurity are especially acute for subsistence farmers and Indigenous peoples, for whom food availability is particularly sensitive to local climatic changes.
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- Authors
- Fournet, F., Simard, F., & Fontenille, D.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Venue
- Eurosurveillance
- Published
- 2024-03-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2300548 [ 4 p.]
- ISSN
- 1025-496X (ISSN-L)
- 1560-7917
- PMC
- PMC10986671
- OpenAlex
- W4392589322
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 7
- FWCI
- 14.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Eurosurveillance (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- Université de Montpellier
- Région Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Green Space and Health
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies
- Keywords
- urban greening, vector-borne diseases, nature-based solutions, urban green space, dengue, West Nile fever, malaria, leishmaniasis, tick-borne diseases, pathogen transmission, Sustainable Development Goals, green space management
- MeSH terms
- Cities, Communicable Diseases, Humans, Malaria, Urban Population, Ecosystem
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