[Pophealth] economic inequality predicts biodiversity loss

[Jeanne Shepard]

I will not be able to attend as my show opens on the 19th, but after that my 
schedule will be more clear.

I started Photo Shop class last night. The logo will soon be a reality.

Jeanne


>From: Stephen Bezruchka <sabez at u.washington.edu>
>To: Population Health Forum <pophealth at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: [Pophealth] economic inequality predicts biodiversity loss
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
>This paper carries our ideas into more basic ecology issues that are 
>important.
>
>  Reference: Mikkelson, G.M.,Gonzalez, A. and
>   Peterson G.D. (2007)
>  "Economic Inequality Predicts Biodiversity Loss," PLoS ONE
>   2(5):e444.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000444.
>
>Human activity is causing high rates of biodiversity loss. Yet, 
>surprisingly little is known about the extent to which socioeconomic 
>factors exacerbate or ameliorate our impacts on biological diversity. One 
>such factor, economic inequality, has been shown to affect public health, 
>and has been linked to environmental problems in general. We tested how 
>strongly economic inequality is related to biodiversity loss in particular. 
>We found that among countries, and among US states, the number of species 
>that are threatened or declining increases substantially with the Gini 
>ratio of income inequality. At both levels of analysis, the connection 
>between income inequality and biodiversity loss persists after controlling 
>for biophysical conditions, human population size, and per capita GDP or 
>income. Future research should explore potential mechanisms behind this 
>equality-biodiversity relationship. Our results suggest that economic 
>reforms would go hand in hand with, if not serving as a prerequisite for, 
>effective conservation.
>
>  For those unfamiliar with getting online papers from a citation such as 
>this:
>To resolve a DOI, just type in the address bar of any browser the string 
>"http://dx.doi.org/" followed by the DOI.
>or in this case if you do the string above, you can type in directly the 
>DOI
>10.1371/journal.pone.0000444
>
>and the article pops up.
>
>Our next PHF meeting is Oct 16, at 5 or 5:30 in H 670 (time depends on when 
>the room is free after a faculty meeting).  At our retreat we discussed the 
>strategy of putting on a one-day workshop, May 3, 2008, for getting people 
>up to speed talking about population health.  So we'll do some strategizing 
>for that.
>
>Stephen
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