Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4803-2 (ISBN)
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health. Grounded in first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, Katharine Zywert’s book argues that the most promising approaches often depart substantially from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses.
The book instead presents promising approaches that disrupt dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness; circumvent exploitative markets for medications, medical technologies, and professionalized care; attend not only to the health of individual human bodies, but to the health of internal ecologies, human populations, nonhuman species, and the planet as a whole; and embody alternative, more inclusive ways of practicing medicine within communities and ecosystems. The stories assembled in this book illustrate how human beings might live healthy lives, supported by health systems that are not dependent on perpetual economic growth.
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet challenges conventional ways of thinking about the future of health systems and asks hard questions about what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change.
Katharine Zywert is an independent researcher and writer working at the intersection of social-ecological systems change and health.
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Introduction to Cultivating Human and Planetary Health
A Note on the Meaning of “Health”
Part 1: The Ecological Foundations of Health
Introduction
1. Health in Deep Time
2. Health across Nested Social-Ecological Scales
3. Problems of Scale in Human and Planetary Health
4. Soil Health
5. Gardening for Health
6. Care Farming
Part 2: A Political Economy for Health
Introduction
7. Political Economic Transformation for Health
8. Relocalization for Human and Planetary Health
9. Community Organizing for Health and Wellbeing in a Global Pandemic
10. Health and Care in Two Ecovillages
11. Community Nursing
12. Community Care for Severe Mental Illnesses in Geel, Belgium
Part 3: Social-Ecological Systems Change for Health
Introduction
13. How Social-Ecological Systems Change Happens
14. Promising Systems Change Strategies for Cultivating Human and Planetary Health
15. The Midnight Kitchen
16. Complexity Medicine Group
17. Herbalism in a Post-Growth Transition
Conclusion: Cultivating Human and Planetary Health for a Sustainable Future
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b&w figures, 3 b&w tables |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4803-6 / 1487548036 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4803-2 / 9781487548032 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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