Selected Publications:

Basic Epidemiology:

Interpreting Clinical Research I
Interpreting Clinical Research II
Interpreting Clinical Research III

Learning Sustainability: One Veterinarian's Journey Selected bibliography of papers and book chapters co-authored or authored by David Waltner-Toews: 1995-2006 (in reverse order)

Parkes, M., Bienen, L., Breilh, J., Hsu, L-N., McDonald, M., Patz, J., Rosenthal, J., Sahani, M., Sleigh, A., Waltner-Toews, D., Yassi, A. All Hands on Deck: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease. 2006 EcoHealth 2: 258-272.

Waltner-Toews, D. and J. Kay. The Evolution of an Ecosystem Approach: the Diamond Schematic and an Adaptive Methodology for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health. Ecology and Society 10 (1): 38, 2005. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss1/art38/

Waltner-Toews, D., Neudeorffer, C., Joshi, D.D., Tamang, M.S. Agro-urban ecosystem health assessment in Kathmandu, Nepal: epidemiology, systems, narratives. Ecohealth. 2: 1-11, 2005.

  Waltner-Toews, D., Kay, J., Murray, T., Neudoerffer, C. 2004. Adaptive Methodology for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: an introduction. In Midgely and Ochoa-Arias, eds. Community Operational Research

Waltner-Toews, D. Wall, E. 2004. Ethnic Diversity and Global Goals: finding a place for cultural diversity in the quest for global goals. In. Waltner-Toews, Kay, Lister, eds. The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability. Columbia University Press, New York.

Waltner-Toews, D., Neudoerffer, C., Kay, J.J., Gtau, T. 2003. Perspective changes everything: managing ecosystems from the inside out. Frontiers in Ecology and The Environment 1 (1): 23-30.

Waltner-Toews, D. and Lang. T. 2001. The emerging model of links between agriculture, food, health, environment and society. Global Change and Human Health 1 (2): 116-130

Waltner-Toews, D. 2001. An ecosystem approach to health and its applications to tropical and emerging diseases. Cadernos de Saude Publica 17 (supplement): 1-36

Waltner-Toews, D. 2000. The End of Medicine: the Beginning of Health. Futures 32:655-657

Waltner-Toews, D. 1999. Mad Cows and Bad Berries. IIED Gatekeeper Series #84

  VanLeeuwen, J.A., Waltner-Toews, D., Abernathy, T., Smit, B. 1999. Evolving models of
human health toward an ecosystem context. Ecosystem Health, 5: 204-219.

Ecosystem Health:  an essential field for veterinary medicine VanLeeuwen et al., JAVMA, vol 212, No. 1, January 1, 1998

  Waltner-Toews, D., Wall, E.,  1997  “Emergent Perplexity:  In Search of Post-Normal
 Questions for Community and Agroecosystem Health", Social Science & Medicine,
 45: 1741-1749

  Waltner-Toews, D.  1996  "An Agroecosystem Perspective on Foodborne Illnesses",
Ecosystem Health, 2: 177 -185

  Waltner-Toews, D.  1995  "Changing Patterns of Communicable Disease - Who's
Turning the Kaleidoscope?", Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 39: 43-55

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