Alien Species and Human Health: Austrian Stakeholder Perspective on Challenges and Solutions.

ABSTRACT: No saturation in the introduction, acceleration of spread and the increasing impacts of alien species are a characteristic feature of the Anthropocene. Concomitantly, alien species affecting human health are supposed to increase, mainly due to increasing global trade and climate change. In this study, we assess challenges and solutions posed by such species to the public health sector in Austria over the next few decades. We did so using an online questionnaire circulated to 131 experts and stakeholders working on human health and biological invasions, supplemented by in-depth interviews with eleven selected experts. Results from the online survey and in-depth interviews largely support and complement each other. Experts and stakeholders suggest that (i) the allergenic Ambrosia artemisi

SUBMITTER: Schindler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266649 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature