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David Waltner-Toews
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Latest papers
[Post-Normal Pandemics: why CoViD-19 requires a new approach to science.].
Recenti progressi in medicina · 2020 · first author
Responding to globalised food-borne disease: risk assessment as post-normal science.
EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2019 · first author
Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa?
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
Latest funding
- $10,000
The Ecosystem Approach: Emergent Complexity, Post-Normal Science, and the Practice of Sustainable Development
SSHRC · 2000 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
[Post-Normal Pandemics: why CoViD-19 requires a new approach to science.].
Waltner-Toews D, Biggeri A, De Marchi B, Funtowicz S, Giampietro M, O'Connor M, Ravetz JR, Saltelli A, van der Sluijs JP
Responding to globalised food-borne disease: risk assessment as post-normal science.
Waltner-Toews D
Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa?
Bardosh KL, Scoones JC, Grace D, Kalema-Zikusoka G, Jones KE, de Balogh K, Waltner-Toews D, Bett B, Welburn SC, Mumford E, Dzingirai V
A descriptive analysis of the spatio-temporal distribution of enteric diseases in New Brunswick, Canada
Valcour JE, Charron DF, Berke O, Wilson JB, Edge T, Waltner-Toews D
The bleating heart.
Waltner-Toews D, Benessia A
Owned dog demography in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala.
Pulczer AS, Jones-Bitton A, Waltner-Toews D, Dewey CE
Whither ecosystem health and ecological medicine in veterinary medicine and education.
Nielsen NO, Waltner-Toews D, Nishi JS, Hunter DB
Incidence of acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile, and other health-care-associated pathogens by dogs that participate in animal-assisted interventions.
Lefebvre SL, Reid-Smith RJ, Waltner-Toews D, Weese JS
Food, global environmental change and health: EcoHealth to the rescue?
Waltner-Toews D
A role of high impact weather events in waterborne disease outbreaks in Canada, 1975 – 2001
Thomas KM, Charron DF, Waltner-Toews D, Schuster C, Maarouf AR, Holt JD
The Ecosystem Approach: Emergent Complexity, Post-Normal Science, and the Practice of Sustainable Development
Principal investigators: Waltner-Toews, David
Keywords: complexity; ecosystems; sustainable; post-normal
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Olaf Berke and David Waltner-Toews: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Edge and Olaf Berke: 1 shared paper
- Thomas Edge and David Waltner-Toews: 1 shared paper
- Corinne Wallace and Olaf Berke: 1 shared paper
- Corinne Wallace and David Waltner-Toews: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Peregrine and David Waltner-Toews: 1 shared paper
- Department of Population Medicine
- Department of Pathobiology
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Biology
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