Edited by Robert C. Brears and Tara Zolnikov
We invite contributions for the Palgrave Handbook of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, which explores the critical relationships between ecosystems and human health. This comprehensive handbook aims to provide interdisciplinary knowledge on mitigating environmental degradation and enhancing resilience to ecosystem change through various measures and actions at local, national, regional, and global scales.
Chapters can range from 1,000 to 10,000 words in length. Contributions are welcome anytime between now and December 2025.
The handbook is divided into two parts:
**Part I: Mitigating Ecosystem Change**
Chapters will discuss strategies to reduce the underlying causes of ecosystem change, addressing topics such as:
– Altered biogeochemical cycles
– Biodiversity loss
– Climate change
– Land use change
– Forest degradation
– Natural disasters
– Pollution of air, water, and soil
– Resource extraction and consumption
– Natural resource scarcity
– Water resources
– Built environment and biodiversity
**Part II: Adapting to Ecosystem Change**
Chapters will focus on enhancing the resilience of social systems to reduce health risks, covering topics including:
– Engineering, design, and ecological restoration for health
– Mobility and transport improvements for human health
– Modeling and forecasting health hazards
– Incorporating health-related decision-making in land use and infrastructure planning
– Raising public awareness of ecosystem change and health impacts
– Risk communication in environment and health
– The human health dimensions of complex socio-environmental systems
– Health impacts of global environmental degradation and earth system change
– Socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental factors influencing zoonotic spillover
– Impacts of health-related decision-making on the environment
– Engagement models for public understanding of health and environment interrelations
Contributors are encouraged to submit chapters of practical significance and policy relevance that are at the forefront of academic debate in mitigating ecosystem change and adapting to environmental change.
For more information and to submit your chapter proposal, please contact Robert C. Brears here.
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