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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: Weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 370, No. 1665, Year 2015
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Arguably one of the most important effects of climate change is the potential impact on human health. While this is likely to take many forms, the implications for future transmission of vector-borne diseases (VBDs), given their ongoing contribution to global disease burden, are both extremely important and highly uncertain. In part, this is owing not only to data limitations and methodological challenges when integrating climate-driven VBD models and climate change projections, but also, perhaps most crucially, to the multitude of epidemiological, ecological and socio-economic factors that drive VBD transmission, and this complexity has generated considerable debate over the past 10–15 years. In this review, we seek to elucidate current knowledge around this topic, identify key themes and uncertainties, evaluate ongoing challenges and open research questions and, crucially, offer some solutions for the field. Although many of these challenges are ubiquitous across multiple VBDs, more specific issues also arise in different vector–pathogen systems. © 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Christophides, George K.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Agusto, Folashade B.
United States, Clarksville
Austin Peay State University
Fefferman, Nina H.
United States, New Brunswick
Rutgers University–new Brunswick
Gaff, Holly D.
United States, Norfolk
Old Dominion University
Gumel, Abba B.
United States, Tempe
Arizona State University
United States, Phoenix
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus
LaDeau, Shannon L.
United States, Millbrook
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Lenhart, Suzanne M.
United States, Knoxville
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mickens, Ronald Elbert
United States, Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University
Naumova, Elena N.
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Ostfeld, Richard S.
United States, Millbrook
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Ready, Paul Donald
United Kingdom, London
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Thomas, Matthew B.
United States, University Park
Pennsylvania State University
Velasco-Hernández, Jorge X.
Mexico, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Michael, Edwin
United States, Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
Statistics
Citations: 164
Authors: 14
Affiliations: 18
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1098/rstb.2013.0551
ISSN:
09628436
Research Areas
Environmental