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Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The Earth is under increasing pressure from the burgeoning global human population and the subsequent rise in demand for food and a myriad of other finite resources. Mitigating the environmental, societal and ecological impact of the human footprint requires understanding the long-te...

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Autores principales: Sykes, Naomi, Beirne, Piers, Horowitz, Alexandra, Jones, Ione, Kalof, Linda, Karlsson, Elinor, King, Tammie, Litwak, Howard, McDonald, Robbie A., Murphy, Luke John, Pemberton, Neil, Promislow, Daniel, Rowan, Andrew, Stahl, Peter W., Tehrani, Jamshid, Tourigny, Eric, Wynne, Clive D. L., Strauss, Eric, Larson, Greger
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32192138
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10030502
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author Sykes, Naomi
Beirne, Piers
Horowitz, Alexandra
Jones, Ione
Kalof, Linda
Karlsson, Elinor
King, Tammie
Litwak, Howard
McDonald, Robbie A.
Murphy, Luke John
Pemberton, Neil
Promislow, Daniel
Rowan, Andrew
Stahl, Peter W.
Tehrani, Jamshid
Tourigny, Eric
Wynne, Clive D. L.
Strauss, Eric
Larson, Greger
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Beirne, Piers
Horowitz, Alexandra
Jones, Ione
Kalof, Linda
Karlsson, Elinor
King, Tammie
Litwak, Howard
McDonald, Robbie A.
Murphy, Luke John
Pemberton, Neil
Promislow, Daniel
Rowan, Andrew
Stahl, Peter W.
Tehrani, Jamshid
Tourigny, Eric
Wynne, Clive D. L.
Strauss, Eric
Larson, Greger
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: The Earth is under increasing pressure from the burgeoning global human population and the subsequent rise in demand for food and a myriad of other finite resources. Mitigating the environmental, societal and ecological impact of the human footprint requires understanding the long-term relationships between our species and the plants and animals we now rely upon. In addition, the modern scientific approach often conceives of, and addresses individual problems through narrow windows that can fail to take into account the connectedness of multiple problems. By broadening the scope of inquiry to include both science and humanities perspectives, and simultaneously focussing on a single species, we suggest that many of the United Nations Strategic Development Goals (SDGs) can be addressed more effectively. In this paper, we describe how a comprehensive assessment of the long-term relationship between humans and dogs can yield insights, and offer ways in which modern global challenges can be tackled. ABSTRACT: No other animal has a closer mutualistic relationship with humans than the dog (Canis familiaris). Domesticated from the Eurasian grey wolf (Canis lupus), dogs have evolved alongside humans over millennia in a relationship that has transformed dogs and the environments in which humans and dogs have co-inhabited. The story of the dog is the story of recent humanity, in all its biological and cultural complexity. By exploring human-dog-environment interactions throughout time and space, it is possible not only to understand vital elements of global history, but also to critically assess our present-day relationship with the natural world, and to begin to mitigate future global challenges. In this paper, co-authored by researchers from across the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities, we argue that a dog-centric approach provides a new model for future academic enquiry and engagement with both the public and the global environmental agenda.
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spelling pubmed-71429652020-04-14 Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges Sykes, Naomi Beirne, Piers Horowitz, Alexandra Jones, Ione Kalof, Linda Karlsson, Elinor King, Tammie Litwak, Howard McDonald, Robbie A. Murphy, Luke John Pemberton, Neil Promislow, Daniel Rowan, Andrew Stahl, Peter W. Tehrani, Jamshid Tourigny, Eric Wynne, Clive D. L. Strauss, Eric Larson, Greger Animals (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: The Earth is under increasing pressure from the burgeoning global human population and the subsequent rise in demand for food and a myriad of other finite resources. Mitigating the environmental, societal and ecological impact of the human footprint requires understanding the long-term relationships between our species and the plants and animals we now rely upon. In addition, the modern scientific approach often conceives of, and addresses individual problems through narrow windows that can fail to take into account the connectedness of multiple problems. By broadening the scope of inquiry to include both science and humanities perspectives, and simultaneously focussing on a single species, we suggest that many of the United Nations Strategic Development Goals (SDGs) can be addressed more effectively. In this paper, we describe how a comprehensive assessment of the long-term relationship between humans and dogs can yield insights, and offer ways in which modern global challenges can be tackled. ABSTRACT: No other animal has a closer mutualistic relationship with humans than the dog (Canis familiaris). Domesticated from the Eurasian grey wolf (Canis lupus), dogs have evolved alongside humans over millennia in a relationship that has transformed dogs and the environments in which humans and dogs have co-inhabited. The story of the dog is the story of recent humanity, in all its biological and cultural complexity. By exploring human-dog-environment interactions throughout time and space, it is possible not only to understand vital elements of global history, but also to critically assess our present-day relationship with the natural world, and to begin to mitigate future global challenges. In this paper, co-authored by researchers from across the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities, we argue that a dog-centric approach provides a new model for future academic enquiry and engagement with both the public and the global environmental agenda. MDPI 2020-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7142965/ /pubmed/32192138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10030502 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sykes, Naomi
Beirne, Piers
Horowitz, Alexandra
Jones, Ione
Kalof, Linda
Karlsson, Elinor
King, Tammie
Litwak, Howard
McDonald, Robbie A.
Murphy, Luke John
Pemberton, Neil
Promislow, Daniel
Rowan, Andrew
Stahl, Peter W.
Tehrani, Jamshid
Tourigny, Eric
Wynne, Clive D. L.
Strauss, Eric
Larson, Greger
Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges
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title_short Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges
title_sort humanity’s best friend: a dog-centric approach to addressing global challenges
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32192138
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10030502
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