Related concepts

• One Health: Uniting human and veterinary medicine
  
  • One Health Initative http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/

• Gaia Theory: The planet is a superorganism
  
  • The Gaia Web http://www.gaiaweb.uk.net/GEOLWEB/index.html
  • James Lovelock: GAIA, a new look at life on earth. E.g. by Oxford paperbacks 2000.
• Complex systems science: the whole is more than its parts
  • Emergent properties, non-linearity, multiple levels, connections, patterns
  • LSE Complexity research programme www.lse.ac.uk/complexity
  • Frederic Vester: The Art of Interconnected Thinking: Tools and concepts for a new approach to tackling complexity, Mcb Verlag 2007.
• Syndemic: 2 or more afflications (biological or social) acting synergistically to create excess disease burden
  • Rock et al.: Animal-human connections, “one health” and the syndemic approach to prevention, Social Science and Medicine 68 (2009) 991-995
• Concept of resilience:
  • Resilience = capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks
  • Walker et al.: Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems", Ecology & Society 2004, 9(2) 5.
• Social-ecological system:
  • Elinor Ostrom: A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas, PNAS 2007, 104(39), 15181-7