River doctors: Learning from medicine to improve ecosystem management

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dc.contributor.authorElosegi, Arturo
dc.contributor.authorGessner, Mark O.
dc.contributor.authorYoung, Roger G.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-14T16:41:27Z
dc.date.available2019-11-14T16:41:27Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractEffective ecosystem management requires a robust methodology to analyse, remedy and avoid ecosystem damage. Here we propose that the overall conceptual framework and approaches developed over millennia in medical science and practice to diagnose, cure and prevent disease can provide an excellent template. Key principles to adopt include combining well-established assessment methods with new analytical techniques and restricting both diagnosis and treatment to qualified personnel at various levels of specialization, in addition to striving for a better mechanistic understanding of ecosystem structure and functioning, as well as identifying the proximate and ultimate causes of ecosystem impairment. In addition to applying these principles, ecosystem management would much benefit from systematically embracing how medical doctors approach and interview patients, diagnose health condition, select treatments, take follow-up measures, and prevent illness. Here we translate the overall conceptual framework from medicine into environmental terms and illustrate with examples from rivers how the systematic adoption of the individual steps proven and tested in medical practice can improve ecosystem management.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEC/FP7/603629/EU/MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS UNDER WATER SCARCITY/GLOBAQUAen
dc.description.sponsorshipEC/FP7/603378/EU/Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress/MARSen
dc.identifier.eissn1879-1026
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10301
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9263
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaftde
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitde
dc.subject.otherbioassessmenten
dc.subject.otherdifferential diagnosisen
dc.subject.otherecosystem managementen
dc.subject.otherenvironmental assessmenten
dc.subject.othermedical methodologyen
dc.subject.othermethodological frameworken
dc.subject.otherriver restorationen
dc.titleRiver doctors: Learning from medicine to improve ecosystem managementen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.188
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleScience of The Total Environmenten
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameElsevieren
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceAmsterdamen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend302
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart294
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume595
tub.accessrights.dnbfree
tub.affiliationFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umwelt::Inst. Ökologie::FG Angewandte Gewässerökologiede
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umweltde
tub.affiliation.groupFG Angewandte Gewässerökologiede
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Ökologiede
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinde

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