The State of the Art in Integrating Ecohealth and Watershed Management Approaches

Abstract

The need for a tight integration between public health and environmental management discourses is ever more salient in both domestic and international fora—linking watershed based integrated water resources management with the Ecohealth perspective is a practical step towards this major policy objective. Here we examine policy recommendations, drawing on the emerging Ecohealth approach, which is based on the premise ecosystem management and human health objectives are interwoven, and by drawing on the watershed approach to ecosystem management, the ascendant paradigm in ecosystem management.