Open AccessFelling trees, furthering malaria: links between deforestation and disease in developing nations
Author(s) -
Kelly Austin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of population and sustainability
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2398-5496
pISSN - 2398-5488
DOI - 10.3197/jps.2019.3.2.13
Subject(s) - deforestation (computer science) , malaria , geography , felling , outbreak , anopheles , agriculture , land use , ecology , environmental planning , socioeconomics , agroforestry , biology , forestry , economics , archaeology , virology , computer science , immunology , programming language
Malaria represents a leading illness and cause of death throughout areas of the Global South. Since malaria is transmitted through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito, environmental conditions are paramount in understanding malaria vulnerabilities. A burgeoning area of research connects anthropogenic deforestation and subsequent land-use changes to the expansion of mosquito habitats and malaria outbreaks. This paper explores those literatures, and also examines the drivers of deforestation in the Global South to demonstrate how population pressures, agricultural production, and rural migration patterns underlie motivations for deforestation and land transformation in poorer countries.