Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet by Katharine Zywert Paperback Book

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Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet considers what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change.

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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.

Author Biography

Katharine Zywert is an independent researcher and writer working at the intersection of social-ecological systems change and health.

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of TablesList of IllustrationsIntroduction to Cultivating Human and Planetary HealthA Note on the Meaning of "Health" Part 1: The Ecological Foundations of HealthIntroduction1. Health in Deep Time2. Health across Nested Social-Ecological Scales3. Problems of Scale in Human and Planetary Health4. Soil Health5. Gardening for Health6. Care Farming Part 2: A Political Economy for HealthIntroduction7. Political Economic Transformation for Health8. Relocalization for Human and Planetary Health9. Community Organizing for Health and Wellbeing in a Global Pandemic10. Health and Care in Two Ecovillages11. Community Nursing12. Community Care for Severe Mental Illnesses in Geel, Belgium Part 3: Social-Ecological Systems Change for HealthIntroduction13. How Social-Ecological Systems Change Happens14. Promising Systems Change Strategies for Cultivating Human and Planetary Health15. The Midnight Kitchen16. Complexity Medicine Group17. Herbalism in a Post-Growth Transition Conclusion: Cultivating Human and Planetary Health for a Sustainable FutureReferencesIndex

Review

"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

Details ISBN1487548664 Author Katharine Zywert Publisher University of Toronto Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781487548667 Format Paperback Imprint University of Toronto Press Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada Alternative 9781487548032 Illustrations 2 b&w figures, 3 b&w tables Audience Tertiary & Higher Education ISBN-10 1487548664 Pages 354 DEWEY 362.1 Publication Date 2024-04-10 UK Release Date 2024-04-10 AU Release Date 2024-07-17 We've got this

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