About this Research Topic
Climate change and its impacts present a formidable challenge for researchers across various academic disciplines. At the same time, the development of new technologies such as the use of Earth Observation data (EO) and GIS modelling offer new opportunities to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of environmental variables on the life cycle of various pathogens. Particularly, climate conditions substantially influence a considerable array of parasites, including those transmitted by mosquito and tick vectors. The use of EO data and GIS type models allows researchers to produce useful suitability maps to assess the risk posed by different zoonotic diseases. About 75% of the emerging human diseases identified in recent decades have a zoonotic origin and 70% of zoonoses are transmitted by wildlife with an observed increasing trend in emerging and re-emerging diseases over the past 10 years.
This Research Topic focuses on the importance of climate change in impacting the epidemiology of parasitic diseases and the potential of new technologies such as Earth Observation Data and GIS modelling to meet One Health’s primary objectives. In the future, EO data will offer the possibility to develop research programs not only relevant to the scientific community but also governmental institutions in order to inform science-based policy decisions.
In particular, we encourage the submission of Articles, Reviews, Mini Reviews, and Case Reports that address the following topics in land, waters, livelihoods, parasites, epidemiology, and bio-security (at least one is necessary) with particular regard to:
● One Health
● Parasitology in humans, animals and plants
● Biological aspects of parasite life cycle
● Maps and application of Remote Sensing data and GIS models
● Climate change
● Risk assessment
● Modelling
● Diagnostics
● Diseases and zoonoses
● Environmental suitability
●Entomology, vectors in human, animal, and plant diseases
● Wildlife, Hunting, Zoonoses, and food and biosecurity and/or epidemiology.
This Research Topic focuses on the importance of climate change in impacting the epidemiology of parasitic diseases and the potential of new technologies such as Earth Observation Data and GIS modelling to meet One Health’s primary objectives. In the future, EO data will offer the possibility to develop research programs not only relevant to the scientific community but also governmental institutions in order to inform science-based policy decisions.
In particular, we encourage the submission of Articles, Reviews, Mini Reviews, and Case Reports that address the following topics in land, waters, livelihoods, parasites, epidemiology, and bio-security (at least one is necessary) with particular regard to:
● One Health
● Parasitology in humans, animals and plants
● Biological aspects of parasite life cycle
● Maps and application of Remote Sensing data and GIS models
● Climate change
● Risk assessment
● Modelling
● Diagnostics
● Diseases and zoonoses
● Environmental suitability
●Entomology, vectors in human, animal, and plant diseases
● Wildlife, Hunting, Zoonoses, and food and biosecurity and/or epidemiology.
Keywords: Earth Observation; GIS, Geo-statistics, One Health, Food Security, Land, Epidemiology, Parasitology, Zoonotic Diseases, Climate Change, Vectors, Animals, Plants, Humans
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