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“One Health” in Asia: Risks and Governance for the Health of Humans, Animals, and the Environment
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About this book
This book is a multifaceted examination of “One Health,” which is an integrated approach to the health of humans, animals, and the environment, with a focus on Asia, a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases. To prevent pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to take economic, social, and governance measures such as investing in natural capital and promoting cooperation among diverse stakeholders, and there is a need for social science research to achieve this. This book focuses on forest conservation, the meat production system, wildlife habitats and neighboring communities, national regulations pertaining to the use of wild and domestic animals, and the international wildlife trade, and discusses the risks inherent in the relationships among humans, animals, and the environment as well as the nature of the governance required to understand the health of these relationships comprehensively. As a reference book for understanding the present situation and challenges of the One Health approach in Asia, we hope that this book will be read not only by related researchers but also by a wide range of students, policymakers, entrepreneurs, citizen activists, and others, who transcend existing fields and domains.
Contents
Preface
Part 1
Chapter 1
Perspectives on the One Health Approach: Focusing on Risk and Governance
Chapter 2
Global Trends in One Health: From Grassroots Activities to Global Treaties
Eri Togami
Chapter 3
Forestry and One Health
Etsuyo Michida
Chapter 4
Meat Supply Chains and One Health
Part 2
Chapter 5
Challenges for the One Health Approach in the Development of Wildlife Animal Policies in China: Focus on Causal Investigations and Responses to COVID-19
Chapter 6
Livestock Markets and Zoonosis Control in Vietnam: Status of Implementation and Challenges of the One Health Approach
Chapter 7
Development, Subsistence Transition, and the Risk of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Rural Communities in Tropical Asia: A Case Study of Sepon District, Savannakhet Province, Laos
Hongwei Jiang
Chapter 8
Transformation of Hilly and Mountainous Areas and Close Contact between Wild Animals and Humans in Japan
Kaori Fujita
Part 3
Chapter 9
Inquiry into the International Wild Animal Trade: Evidence from East and Southeast Asia
Chapter 10
Utilization and Improvement of Spatiotemporal Data in the One Health Approach: Evaluation of Infection Disease Risks in the Mekong Region
Afterword
Preface
Preface
This book is a product of the “Interdisciplinary Approach to One Health Research” study group, which operated under the Basic and Comprehensive Research Projects of the Institute of Developing Economies from FY2022 to FY2023.
The concept of “One Health” was proposed by experts in medicine, veterinary medicine, agriculture, and wildlife conservation in the 2000s, against the backdrop of frequent global outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases (many of which are also known as “zoonoses”) such as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which have had significant socioeconomic impacts. This approach takes an interdisciplinary and integrated view of the health of humans, animals, and the environment. In the wake of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which has caused enormous damage and disruption worldwide, the One Health approach has once again come into the spotlight, and it is being considered by the G7 and G20 as a potential initiative to prevent future pandemics. In this context, the importance of the economic, social, and governance aspects of the One Health approach, including investments in natural capital and promoting cooperation among diverse stakeholders, is being recognized, but social science research is lagging.
With this background in mind, this book examines the One Health approach from various perspectives, with a focus on Asia, a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases. This interdisciplinary research book was written by a team of authors from a variety of fields, including environmental studies, veterinary medicine and public health, economics, and human ecology. We hope this book will catalyze deepening interest in and understanding of the One Health approach in a wide range of students, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, civic activists, and others.
Editor