Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Katharine Zywert
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781487548667
ISBN 10: 1487548664
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 10 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""As we career towards an increasingly insecure future, this book provides a blueprint for a better, more caring world. It not only asks us to pause, look back at where we came from, and use this knowledge to lead us forward into a better tomorrow, but also shows us what that future can look like. A fantastic tonic for our current condition.""--Jennifer Cole, Senior Lecturer of Global and Planetary Health, Royal Holloway University of London ""An incredibly interesting book in which Zywert describes the mechanisms of human and planetary health all the way from global economics to community initiatives and explains the important connections between the two. It is a book that should interest all, and - most importantly - is written from the perspective of hope. The detailed case studies should inspire many to make a meaningful change to planetary and human health.""--Pauline Scheelbeek, Associate Professor in the Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine"
Author Information
Katharine Zywert is an independent researcher and writer working at the intersection of social-ecological systems change and health.
