Biodiversity, a guarantee of health?
Biodiversity makes an important contribution to a healthy life. This is confirmed by an analysis of scientific studies published by the Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT) as a fact sheet. Conclusion: the considerable preventive and therapeutic potential of biodiversity is still largely untapped.
A natural or nearly natural environment has a positive effect on human health in many ways. This means that a natural environment can also help meet public health challenges. These include obesity, certain chronic, infectious and non-communicable diseases, depression and anxiety, and also child development and cognitive aging. In order to give everyone contact with and access to high-quality nature, it is advisable to strengthen the development and conservation of green spaces and natural landscapes with rich biological diversity. This requires close cooperation at local and national level between public health, urban development, spatial planning and nature conservation. At the same time, inter- and transdisciplinary research is needed to increase knowledge about the links between health and biodiversity.
Swiss Academies Factsheets
- Pollen allergy and the impact of a changing climate
- The New Global Connect: Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Their Local Impacts
- Physics in Switzerland – driving economy, triggering innovation, empowering citizens
- Faktenblatt «Wertvolles Geoland Schweiz»
- What Switzerland can do for biodiversity
- Making landscape services tangible
- Insektenvielfalt in der Schweiz
- Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss jointly
- Pestizide: Auswirkungen auf Umwelt, Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen
- Achieving the SDGs with Biodiversity
- Übermässige Stickstoff- und Phosphoreinträge schädigen Biodiversität, Wald und Gewässer
- Biodiversity damaging subsidies in Switzerland
- How can local populations be won over to protected areas?
- Gene drives: benefits, risks, and possible applications
- Plant breeding – from cross breeding to genome editing
- Small state, big companies
- Variety is the source of life
- Chancen und Auswirkungen einer CO2-Lenkungsabgabe auf Treibstoffe
- Instrumente für eine wirksame und effiziente Klima- und Energiepolitik
- Biodiversity, a guarantee of health?
- Open Science in Switzerland: Opportunities and Challenges
- Nationale Bedeutung naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen der Schweiz
- Governance of regional development
- Reverse emissions or influence solar radiation: Is “geoengineering” worthwhile, feasible and if so, at what price?
- Wildlife and humans in outdoor recreational areas near cities
- New approaches for protecting potatoes against late blight
- Wasser in der Schweiz
- Spotlight on climate in Switzerland
- Outdoor Sports Infrastructure Planning – Hiking and Mountain Biking
- Ozon und Sommersmog: Klimawandel gefährdet heutige Erfolge
- Factsheet «New plant breeding techniques for Swiss agriculture – significant potential, uncertain future»
- Energiestrategie und Gesundheit: Was bei der Umsetzung der Energiestrategie zu beachten ist
- Making the Commodity Sector Work for Developing Countries - Local Impacts, Global Links, and Knowledge Gaps
- Switzerland and the Commodities Trade - Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
- Health and global change in an interconnected world - Concerns and responsibilities for Switzerland
- Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz mit Luftreinhaltung verbinden
- Added value from tourism in Swiss parks
- A Focus on fracking
- Bienen und andere Bestäuber: Bedeutung für Landwirtschaft und Biodiversität (2014)
- Genetically modified crops and their importance for Swiss agriculture
- Environmental changes and migration in developing countries
- Die Verbuschung des Alpenraums durch die Grünerle
- Food security for a planet under pressure – and the challenges for Switzerland
- Mountains, a priority for a planet under pressure and for Switzerland
- Water security for a planet under pressure – and the consequences for Switzerland
- Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen auf globaler Ebene und in der Schweiz (2012)
Swiss Academies Factsheets zur Biodiversität
- What Switzerland can do for biodiversity
- Insektenvielfalt in der Schweiz
- Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss jointly
- Pestizide: Auswirkungen auf Umwelt, Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen
- Achieving the SDGs with Biodiversity
- Übermässige Stickstoff- und Phosphoreinträge schädigen Biodiversität, Wald und Gewässer
- Biodiversity damaging subsidies in Switzerland
- Gene drives: benefits, risks, and possible applications
- Variety is the source of life
- Biodiversity, a guarantee of health?
- Insektenschwund in der Schweiz und mögliche Folgen für Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft
- Bienen und andere Bestäuber: Bedeutung für Landwirtschaft und Biodiversität (2014)
- Die Verbuschung des Alpenraums durch die Grünerle
- Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen auf globaler Ebene und in der Schweiz (2012)
- Kosten eines gesetzeskonformen Schutzes der Biotope nationaler Bedeutung
