Montira J Pongsiri

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of potential fire emissions across the domain on smoke concentrations in three receptor areas downwind during the 2006 event was calculated using the adjoint of the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model, which allows near real-time assessment of smoke pollution exposure, and therefore the consequent morbidity and premature mortality.

TL;DR: It is proposed that habitat destruction and biodiversity loss associated with biotic homogenization can increase the incidence and distribution of infectious diseases affecting humans.

TL;DR: The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis is used as a framework to describe the role of forest disturbance in shaping the mosquito community structure, and to identify the ecological processes that increase the emergence of vector-borne disease.