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 ⭐