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Abstract
Evaluating ecosystem health in relation to the ecological, economic and human health
spheres requires integrating human values with biophysical processes, an integration
that has been explicitly avoided by conventional science. The field is advancing with
the articulation of the linkages between human activity, regional and global environmental
change, reduction in ecological services and the consequences for human health, economic
opportunity and human communities. Increasing our understanding of these interactions
will involve more active collaboration between the ecological, social and health sciences.
In this, ecologists will have substantive and catalytic roles.