Exploring relationships among stream health, human well-being, and demographics in Virginia, USA

further research 🎉

results

methods

people 👥

environmental justice ❤

effects groups

minorities most

groups based on

economic status

local pollution loads

race/ethnicity

systemic racism

most often excluded

general benefits of maintaining

restoring

healthy ecosystems

EH & HH relationship

into causation

EH and systemic racism

contaminants and morality

requires

spatiotemporal analyses

to reveal specific

pathways and feedbacks

linking HWB and EH

motivations to protect EH

sense of place

support environmental protection

hope for future

grounded in

location specific history

culture 🍻

individual

land use connections

political structures

sense of identity

ecosystem health (EH) ♻

indicated by

stream health

because

surface waters

point for ecosystem services

human contact by

pollutants

pathogens

VA

diversity

ecological

demographic

western mountains

east Atlantic Ocean

racially

economically

health

characterized by

natural physicochemical

biological attributes

contaminant burdens

in

wild animals

species diversity

rates of nutrient cycling

positive correlation ✅

across

poor ecosystem health

exacerbates inequities in

3 domains

politics

socioeconomics

with ecosystem improvements

lead to

reduce crime

improve public health

reflect environmental inequity

based on VSCI

research could allow

investment in environmental programs

enhance cost effectiveness & equity 🏁

avoid demographic disparities

EH-HWB relationship facets 💥

multidisciplinary

multiscale

toxilogical

epidemiological

socioeconomic

political

benefits

human well being (HWB) 😃

indicators

personal safety perceptions

community engagement levels

mortality rates

human well being index

to characterize

county specific HWB

statistical analysis

everything

everyone

environment & people ⭐