Section outline

    • This session will look at some key health behaviours with a focus on diet and nutrition. We will examine how the environment effects what we eat and consider how we can change the environment to improve population health.

      Further reading:

      Explore the Global Burden of Disease risk-factor summaries on this page: Global Burden of Disease: GBD cause and risk summaries (thelancet.com)

      You might particularly be interested in the dietary risks and other risks linked to dietary risk (for example high body-mass index).

       

      Coleman et al, 2022. A rapid review of the evidence for children’s TV and online advertisement restrictions to fight obesity. Preventive Medicine Reports.

      A rapid review of the evidence for children’s TV and online advertisement restrictions to fight obesity - ScienceDirect

       

      If feeling hardcore, you might like to read: Westbury S, Ghosh I, Jones HM, Mensah D, Samuel F, Irache A, Azhar N, Al-Khudairy L, Iqbal R, Oyebode O. The influence of the urban food environment on diet, nutrition and health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Oct;6(10):e006358. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006358 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8506857/

    • In this seminar we will explore biodiversity monitoring from an ecological perspective. We will examine the needs for monitoring, relevant national and international legislation which enforce the requirement for monitoring, and data types which are returned to these agreements. We will explore modern methods for gathering data and the emerging technological innovations which allow us to gather new data types.

      Further reading

       

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716303652 Neil Brummitt, Eugenie C. Regan, Lauren V. Weatherdon, Corinne S. Martin, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Duccio Rocchini, Yoni Gavish, Peter Haase, Charles J. Marsh, Dirk S. Schmeller, Taking stock of nature: Essential biodiversity variables explained, Biological Conservation, Volume 213, Pages 252-255, 2017

       

      Browse the WWF Living Planet report and monitoring resources from the Zoological Society of London, selecting areas you are interested in:

      https://cms.zsl.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/lpr_2022_full_report%20smaller.pdf?_ga=2.238248070.78672644.1688727827-407781461.1688727826

      https://www.zsl.org/what-we-do/science-research/global-biodiversity-monitoring

       

      https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00197/full Makiola A, Compson ZG, Baird DJ, Barnes MA, Boerlijst SP, Bouchez A, Brennan G, Bush A, Canard E, Cordier T, Creer S, Curry RA, David P, Dumbrell AJ, Gravel D, Hajibabaei M, Hayden B, van der Hoorn B, Jarne P, Jones JI, Karimi B, Keck F, Kelly M, Knot IE, Krol L, Massol F, Monk WA, Murphy J, Pawlowski J, Poisot T, Porter TM, Randall KC, Ransome E, Ravigné V, Raybould A, Robin S, Schrama M, Schatz B, Tamaddoni-Nezhad A, Trimbos KB, Vacher C, Vasselon V, Wood S, Woodward G and Bohan DA (2020) Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring. Front. Environ. Sci. 7:197. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00197