Focusing the DAMA Protocol in a Time of Climate Triage: EU Policies on Migration and Disease – 4th Blue Sky Conference in Budapest – 7-10 November 2019

The newly-articulated Stockholm Paradigm explains how a combination of climate change, globalization, and increasing urbanization produces the crisis of emerging infectious diseases. Traditional views assume that pathogens cannot move to new hosts without first evolving novel genetic capacities to do so. The Stockholm Paradigm demonstrates that such new capacities are not needed – all that is required is new opportunities for pathogens to be exposed to susceptible hosts that have never been exposed to the pathogen. Movement of species is thus the most important element of the emerging disease threat, and climate change has always been the major catalyst of species movements. (Daniel R. Brooks – University of Toronto)

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