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Rationale, experience and ethical considerations underpinning integrated actions to further global goals for health and land biodiversity in Papua New Guinea
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posted on 2023-06-12, 09:27 authored by Jo MiddletonJo Middleton, Jackie Cassell, Gavin Colthart, Francesca Dem, James Fairhead, Michael G Head, Joao Inacio, Mavis Jimbudo, Moses Laman, Vojtech Novotny, Mika PeckMika Peck, Jonah Philip, William Pomat, Shen Sui, Peter West-OramPeter West-Oram, Alan StewartAlan StewartThe SURFACES project is integrating action on good health and wellbeing (Sustainable Development Goal [SDG] 3) and conservation of life on land (SDG 15) in the threatened rainforests of Papua New Guinea (PNG), and mapping evidence of similar projects worldwide. Our approach is framed by Planetary Health, aiming to safeguard both human health and the natural systems that underpin it. Our rationale is demonstrated through a summary of health needs and forest conservation issues across PNG, and how these play out locally. We outline differing types of integrated conservation and health interventions worldwide, providing examples from Borneo, Uganda, India and elsewhere. We then describe what we are doing on-the-ground in PNG, which includes expansion of a rainforest conservation area alongside the establishment of a nurse-staffed aid post, and an educational intervention conceptually linking forest conservation and health. Importantly, we explore some ethical considerations on the conditionality of medical provision, and identify key challenges to successful implementation of such projects. The latter include: avoiding cross-sectoral blindness and achieving genuine interdisciplinary working; the weak evidence base justifying projects; and temporal-spatial issues. We conclude by suggesting how projects integrating actions on health and conservation SDGs can benefit from (and contribute to) the energy of the emerging Planetary Health movement.
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Integrating conservation and health in Papua New Guinea’s vulnerable rainforests; G2892; DEFRA-DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD, RURAL AFFAIRS; Darwin Ref: 26-
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Sustainability ScienceISSN
1862-4065Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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15Page range
1653-1664Department affiliated with
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- Sussex Sustainability Research Programme Publications
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2020-04-16First Open Access (FOA) Date
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