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NEX12 | Biodiversity recovery through Transdisciplinary environmental systems reengineering
Biodiversity recovery through Transdisciplinary environmental systems reengineering
Convener: Ndubuisi Idejiora-Kalu | Co-convener: Margaret Hiro Kimishima
The survivability of the variety of life on earth at all levels, from genes to ecosystems, the diversity within and between species, is all dependent on the constantness of the earth’s biological diversity. The distortions of our biodiversity as a result of our veracious quest for new needs, modernization and accessible energy for supporting these activities have constituted grave consequences to existing life on earth (as well as the survivability of the planet itself).
A case study demonstration of this on how this biodiversity consequence is primarily linked to the distortion (and modification) of the natural state of mosquitoes as pollinators and now hematophages is being investigated as a common denominator of malaria responsible for the death of a million people (mostly children under the age of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa yearly. The tampering of DNA cells by Malaria is also linked as a major cause of B-cell Lymphoma cancers misdiagnosed for HIV, TB and Malaria in malaria-endemic regions. This association of major health challenges with the distortion of our biodiversity is just one in several other cases and realities (linking even geopolitical concerns) of the damage to our lives, society and earth due and consequence of a distorted biological diversity.
There is therefore the urgent need for biodiversity recovery solutions and this must transcend known disciplinary areas and ‘knowings’ and should be open to a Transdisciplinary spectra where various forms of Transdisciplinary systems engineering can be harnessed to build a wider and more effective biodiversity recovery modality for our planet, mitigating as well, associated consequences aggressively and gnawingly linked to water, food, health and climate change.