Key Points
We hear of quite a few preventive and control actions..
Green infrastructure may be understood to include all natural systems in a landscape viz. forests, woodlands, wetlands, parks, rivers, agriculture and cash crops..
The gains of green infrastructure are many: Investment and employment, conservation, land and soil management, disaster prevention, climate crisis mitigation and adaptation, low carbon transport and energy, multi-functional resilient agriculture and forestry, water management, tourism and recreation, and health and well-being..
It is well known that pathogens originate in animals, and the disease spills over to humans largely on account of human actions like livestock reproduction, fragmented ecosystems, or unsustainable wildlife exploitation..
The strategic framework of the World Health Organization, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization has highlighted important elements like robust public and animal health systems, preventing regional and international crises by controlling disease outbreaks, promoting collaboration, developing rational and targeted disease control programmes and addressing consent of the poor by focusing on developing economies, from potential to actual disease problems. . Green infrastructure is no doubt sustainable..
