Hawai'i's mountain-to-sea ecosystems: social-ecological microcosms for sustainability science and practice.
Kaneshiro KY, Chinn P, Duin KN, Hood AP, Maly K, Wilcox BA. 2005. Hawai'i's mountain-to-sea ecosystems: social-ecological microcosms for sustainability science and practice.. EcoHealth. 2(4):349-360
Reviews past history of landuse and change in Hawaii and current programs, such as a project building on programs of the Divsion of Ecology and Health, and the Asia-Pacific Center for Infectious Disease Ecology, linking ecosystem resilience and infectious diseases. The human-natural system dynamic has characteristic landscape and drainage basin changes which have precipitated other changes in ecological functions affecting the hydrologic regime of mountain-to-sea ecosystems in Hawai'i that have specific human health and safety implications. A model is presented on the relationship of catchment hydroecology and the effects of drainage basin development on leptospirosis prevalence.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Kaneshiro, Kenneth; Chinn, Pauline; Duin, Kristin; Hood, Andrew; Maly, Kepa; Wilcox, Bruce
- Units
- PACN
- Keywords
- Disease, Landscape, Landuse, PACN, Pollution, Watershed