Squance Hayley, MacDonald Carol, Stewart Carol, Prasanna Raj, Johnston David M
Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, Wellington 6021, New Zealand.
Independent Researcher, Masterton 5810, New Zealand.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Nov 3;11(11):3141. doi: 10.3390/ani11113141.
Responding to emergencies requires many different individuals and organisations to work well together under extraordinary circumstances. Unfortunately, the management of animal welfare in emergencies remains largely disconnected from emergency management overall. This is due predominately to professional silos and a failure to understand the importance of human-animal-environment (h-a-e) interdependencies. One Welfare (OW) is a concept with these interrelationships at its core. This paper argues that by adopting an OW framework it will be possible to achieve a transdisciplinary approach to emergency management in which all stakeholders acknowledge the importance of the h-a-e interdependencies and work to implement a framework to support this. Acknowledging that such a transformational change will not be easy, this paper proposes several strategies to overcome the challenges and optimise the outcomes for animal welfare emergency management (AWEM). These include legislation and policy changes including h-a-e interface interactions as business as usual, improving knowledge through interprofessional education and training, incorporating One Welfare champions, and recognising the role of animals as vital conduits into communities.
应对紧急情况需要许多不同的个人和组织在特殊情况下密切协作。不幸的是，紧急情况下的动物福利管理在很大程度上仍与整体应急管理脱节。这主要是由于专业领域的隔阂以及未能理解人类-动物-环境（h-a-e）相互依存关系的重要性。“同一健康”（OW）是一个以这些相互关系为核心的概念。本文认为，通过采用“同一健康”框架，将有可能实现一种跨学科的应急管理方法，使所有利益相关者都认识到h-a-e相互依存关系的重要性，并努力实施一个支持这一关系的框架。鉴于这种变革性的变化并非易事，本文提出了几种策略，以克服挑战并优化动物福利应急管理（AWEM）的成果。这些策略包括立法和政策变革，将h-a-e界面互动纳入日常工作，通过跨专业教育和培训提高认识，纳入“同一健康”倡导者，并认识到动物作为进入社区的重要渠道的作用。
