Abstract
The ever-growing production and the problematization of Environmental Health have shown the need to apprehend complex realities and deal with uncertainties from the most diversified instruments which may even incorporate local aspects and subjectivities by means of qualitative realities, while broadening the capacity of the information system. This paper presents a view on the reflection upon some challenges and possible convergences between the ecosystemic approach and the Fuzzy logic in the process of dealing with scientific information and decision-making in Environmental Health.
Highlights
MethodologyThe meanders of the relation between health and environment have been unveiled in a more intense manner in the last few decades, with syntheses, research and productions which denote an ever-growing interest in the area
Since they are closer to the community and its reality, they present more conditions to have a multidisciplinary understanding of the problems that, are characterized in a qualitative way and, at first, do not find the means to generate indicators according to the current methodologies used in the information systems (IANNI & QUITÉRIO, 2006)
Facing the current and emerging issues, by improving the relationship between information and the contributions in the realm of Environmental Health, the Fuzzy logic is a remarkable ally of the Ecosystemic Approach, because on a first level, it may open ways for the establishment of a dialogue between different kinds of knowledge regarding the complex realities on a local basis with the information systems, which are traditionally quantitative and reductionist
Summary
The meanders of the relation between health and environment have been unveiled in a more intense manner in the last few decades, with syntheses, research and productions which denote an ever-growing interest in the area. It is possible to resort to a diversity of assumptions, models, approaches and methods This is justified due to the complexity inherent to the relations involving society and environment. Their implications require constant improvement of knowledge and interaction with the area, especially in terms of the need to improve the means to qualify and establish a dialogue with the subjects in environmental situations, who are crucial elements in the sense of obtaining broad understanding and effective management measures. This paper is a literature review and presents a view of the reflection about some challenges and possible convergence between the ecosystemic approach and the Fuzzy logic in the process of dealing with scientific information and the decision-making in Environmental Health.
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