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Covid – an Alternative Inquiry

Putting Health at the Heart of a Green Recovery Strategy

David Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2023 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80374-284-7 (ISBN)

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This book has three ambitions:to show how to improve all aspects of health, personal and social, economic and environmental, to restore most public services to local council control where they originated, and to define a recovery strategy that ensures a sustainable future for all. It is a political agenda for action rather than an academic study.

«This is a very good argument, with impressive detail, clear structure, and vehement commitment.»

(M. McEldowney, Emeritus Professor of Planning)

This book provides a post-Covid recovery strategy for the UK that is based on all aspects of health, but also addresses the ever-greater threat from global warming. Health and sustainability are interlocked.

More than other European nations, we favour libertarian values over social equity, privatized public services and lower taxes that reduce those services. From fair-minded pragmatism, we have descended into dogma, incompetence and intolerance.

Using the government's 5 guiding principles for a sustainable future, the book suggests how to improve distinct aspects of health:

personal health through more preventive medicine;

environmental health with lower transport and household emissions;

economic health through local (rather than global) production of goods and services;

social health by reducing gross health and wealth inequalities; and

political health through strategic commitment, fair taxes (a bedroom tax just on the poor?) and real devolution to local councils.

We need to think local, act local and act now.

David Williams (B Sc(Hons), MCD) has spent many happy years in planning, economic development and regeneration. After Liverpool and Bexley councils, and the Civic Trust Regeneration Unit, he set up Tellus 42 in 1997. This community planning consultancy was the RTPI’s Sole Practitioner of the Year in 2004. He is also the author of Civilizing Cities (2021).

Contents

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction . . . . . . . . 3

1 Using sound science responsibly . . . . 5

personal health and Covid (5), our political response (7),

the victims (9), the NHS (11), local public health (14)

2 Living within the planet's environmental limits . . 18

environmental health (18), private traffic (19),

public transport (23), pedals and pedestrians (27),

integrating transport strategy (28), personal emissions (30)

3 Achieving a sustainable economy . . . . 32

a sustainable economy (32), Covid and business (33,)

mega-corps and the profit motive (34), SMEs and the work ethic (37),

delivering public services (40), local mixed economies (42)

4 Ensuring a strong, healthy and just society . . . 45

social health (45), wealth inequality (46), education (48),

health inequality and housing (51),

improving local schools and housing (55)

5 Promoting good governance . . . . . 58

understanding problems (59), determining strategy (62),

implementing policies (65), raising tax income (67),

review outcomes (71)

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . 74

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	307 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-80374-284-4 / 1803742844
ISBN-13	978-1-80374-284-7 / 9781803742847
Zustand	Neuware