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Tackling Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms with Chinese Colleagues: We're All in the Same Boat
Author(s) -
Paerl Hans W.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1111/jpy.13058
Subject(s) - threatened species , china , biology , pandemic , sustainability , human health , algal bloom , environmental planning , political science , covid-19 , environmental ethics , development economics , environmental resource management , ecology , environmental health , phytoplankton , geography , disease , law , nutrient , medicine , philosophy , environmental science , pathology , habitat , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) are a rapidly proliferating global problem, threatening the use and sustainability of our freshwater resources. In recent decades, the United States, China, and other developed and developing countries threatened by CyanoHAB expansion have established collaborative efforts aimed at mitigating and managing this environmental and human health problem. However, an escalating negative political climate and restrictive policies on scientific exchange threaten these efforts. In this Perspective, I point to progress that has been made to counter the CyanoHAB problem on U.S.–Chinese fronts through our collaborations, which have been mutually beneficial from research and academic perspectives. Much like global efforts now needed to control pandemics, we are all “in the same boat” when to comes to countering the threat CyanoHABs pose for drinkable, swimmable, and fishable freshwater supplies and human health.