Biodiversity: a key to healthier ecosystems, humans, and livelihoods

As the world grapples with interconnected challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and emerging health threats, new findings from Biodiversa+, the European Partnership supporting biodiversity research, highlight the crucial role of biodiversity in maintaining the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems. These insights reveal the strong links between biodiversity and health, offering solutions to reduce…

Landscape diversity enhances human health (alt-2)

Policy brief: “Landscape diversity enhances human health” Diverse agricultural and forest landscapes enhance human physical and mental health. Even small land use changes can introduce health risks into the environment. Landscape diversity refers to the variety and spatial arrangement of different ecosystems and landforms within a specific area. It supports species diversity and is essential…

Landscape diversity enhances human health (alt-1)

SectionsFiguresSections   Introduction   Agricultural landscapes   Forests   Rivers Figures Intensification of land use leads to landscape homogenisation and decline in biodiversity (with farmlands as an example). Pathways linking land use and landscape structure to functional diversity and human well-being with examples of possible ways of quantification in italic. Effect of forest characteristics of…