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Zoonoses, One Health and complexity: wicked problems and constructive conflict.
1Community of Practice for Ecosystem Approaches to Health-Canada (CoPEH-Canada), Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le bien-être, la santé, la société et l'environnement (CINBIOSE), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 dwtoews@gmail.com.
Summary
One Health approaches, essential for managing infectious zoonoses, must embrace and manage conflicts arising from diverse perspectives. Prioritizing certain viewpoints can lead to technocratic control, undermining the adaptive nature of One Health initiatives.
Area of Science:
- Ecology
- Public Health
- Social Sciences
Background:
- Infectious zoonoses arise from intricate social and ecological system interactions.
- Understanding zoonotic disease emergence necessitates integrating diverse perspectives and value systems.
- Current One Health approaches often marginalize certain viewpoints, leading to technocratic tendencies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the inherent conflicts within One Health approaches.
- To advocate for conflict management as a core function of One Health.
- To address the marginalization of perspectives in One Health strategies.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of One Health principles and practices.
- Review of interdisciplinary perspectives on zoonotic disease management.
- Examination of the role of conflict in adaptive systems.
Main Results:
- One Health approaches inherently involve conflicts among diverse stakeholders.
- Implicit or explicit prioritization of perspectives can result in technocratic control.
- Effective One Health strategies require active facilitation and management of conflicts.
Conclusions:
- One Health initiatives must be designed to accommodate and manage diverse, often conflicting, perspectives.
- Conflict management, rather than solution imposition, should be a central function of One Health.
- Addressing the marginalization of viewpoints is crucial for sustainable and adaptive One Health outcomes.
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