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Clean water is essential to life and health, yet almost a billion people lack access to this basic necessity. Climate change, urbanization, as well as industrial and agricultural practices are all putting growing pressure on fresh water systems. In...
How can design address the complex challenges facing a growing number of urban poor around the world and help to build healthier cities? This question was addressed in the Design with the Other 90%: Cities exhibit, which ran from October 2011 to...
Thirty researchers from the four corners of Canada and the world are coming to Montreal to further build the field of ecohealth. They represent diverse disciplines including philosophy, sociology, ecology, and animal and human health. From November...
Researchers from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Uruguay met in Mérida, Mexico at the end of August 2011 to continue their exchange on the eco-bio-social approach to disease prevention. This broad approach focuses on...
The Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming Medical University, and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) will co-host the 4th biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health (IAEH) in Kunming, China, October 15 to 18, 2012...
Global experts in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and water management recently attended an IDRC-supported workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their goal? To tap the enormous potential of ICTs to support climate change...
CIVICUS, the World Alliance for Citizen Participation, is hosting its annual World Assembly in Montréal, September 10-12, 2011.The 2011 World Assembly will take place at the Palais des congrès de Montréal and will bring together representatives from...
On October 17-18, 2010, 45 researchers and policymakers from 10 Latin American countries met in Guadalajara, Mexico to present results of research on the transmission of dengue, malaria, and Chagas disease and discus ecohealth research methods.
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Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, State Governor of Yucatán, officially opened the International EcoHealth Forum in Merida, in December 2008. Healthy and resilient ecosystems are the foundations of a society’s strength, she observed, since environmental...
The International EcoHealth Forum 2008 took place December, 2008, in Mérida, Yucatán, México. With 689 participants, it marked an important milestone in strengthening ecohealth research and building partnerships between researchers, practitioners...
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