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Ecosystems, Society, and HealthPathways through Diversity, Convergence, and Integration |
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International perspectives on the complexity and interdependence of ecological, health, and societal problems.
The modern world has created complex systems that have interrelated concerns. Ecosystems, Society, and Health presents new perspectives on how the challenges relating to these concerns must be examined, not as disparate political narratives, but as dynamic transformational stories that demand integrative systems of research, analysis, practice, and action.
Struggles over healthy watersheds, diseases associated with environmental change, and public health impacts of unsafe food exemplify the demand for integrated understanding and action. Contributors argue that traditional science, power politics, and linear ideals of public policy are inadequate to address sustainability, justice, safety, and responsibility. Drawing from a series of case studies that range from nursing, to watershed management, to environmental health and risk communication, this collection strikes an informed balance between practical lessons and a sophisticated theoretical context with which to interpret them.
Demonstrating the diverse contextual understanding demanded by today’s complex issues, Ecosystems, Society, and Health is a timely resource with guidance for practitioners, researchers, and educators.
Struggles over healthy watersheds, diseases associated with environmental change, and public health impacts of unsafe food exemplify the demand for integrated understanding and action. Contributors argue that traditional science, power politics, and linear ideals of public policy are inadequate to address sustainability, justice, safety, and responsibility. Drawing from a series of case studies that range from nursing, to watershed management, to environmental health and risk communication, this collection strikes an informed balance between practical lessons and a sophisticated theoretical context with which to interpret them.
Demonstrating the diverse contextual understanding demanded by today’s complex issues, Ecosystems, Society, and Health is a timely resource with guidance for practitioners, researchers, and educators.
Details
352 Pages, 6 x 9
14 figures, 7 tables
ISBN 9780773544796
June 2015
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“By drawing on research in diverse areas and integrating the different concepts, approaches and interpretive frameworks into a coherent volume, Ecosystems, Society, and Health moves the field of interdisciplinary research at the nexus of society, environment, and health significantly forward.” Mardie Townsend, Deakin University
“An important contribution to the field by offering national and international perspectives and lessons of collaboration for a common purpose. It will be especially relevant for students who are broadening their understandings of the intersections between ecosystems, health, and society.” Health Tomorrow
“An important contribution to the field by offering national and international perspectives and lessons of collaboration for a common purpose. It will be especially relevant for students who are broadening their understandings of the intersections between ecosystems, health, and society.” Health Tomorrow
Lars K. Hallström is associate professor of political studies and director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities at the University of Alberta.
Nicholas P. Guehlstorf is an associate professor of environmental sciences and political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Margot W. Parkes is associate professor in the School of Health Sciences and the Northern Medical Program at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Nicholas P. Guehlstorf is an associate professor of environmental sciences and political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Margot W. Parkes is associate professor in the School of Health Sciences and the Northern Medical Program at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Convergence and Diversity: Integrating Encounters with Health, Ecological, and Social Concerns 3
Lars K. Hallström, Margot W. Parkes, and Nicholas P. Guehlstorf
Section One: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Health, Environment, and Community
2 Strengthening Communities with a Socio-Ecological Approach: Local and International Lessons in Whole Systems 33
Nancy Edwards and Colleen Davison
3 Using Research and Restoration to Re-Imagine Safe Places in a Technologically Colonized Health Care World 68
Patricia Marck
4 Engaging with Nature in the Promotion of Health 99
Patti Hansen-Ketchum
Section Two: Deliberation, Policy, and Collaboration as Pathways to Integration
5 Deliberative Rule-Making for Human Health and the Environment: Making Administrative Discretion Safe for Democracy 135
Robert V. Bartlett and Walter F. Baber
6 The Social and Environmental Outcomes of Market-Based Wetland Regulations in the US Midwest 159
Nicholas P. Guehlstorf and Traci Lichtenberg
7 “Just Add Water”: Dissolving Barriers to Collaboration and Learning for Health, Ecosystems, and Equity 184
Margot W. Parkes
Section Three: Linking Ecosystems, Society, and Health through Learning and Local Knowledge
8 Situated Learning, Community Development, and Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Cuban Fishing Villages 227
Karen Morrison, John Fitzgibbon, and David Waltner-Toews
9 Religion, Environment, and Health 256
Anne Marie Dalton
10 Integrative Science and Two-Eyed Seeing: Enriching the Discussion Framework for Healthy Communities 280
Cheryl Bartlett, Murdena Marshall, Albert Marshall, and Marilyn Iwama
Contributors 327
Index 331
Acknowledgments ix
1 Convergence and Diversity: Integrating Encounters with Health, Ecological, and Social Concerns 3
Lars K. Hallström, Margot W. Parkes, and Nicholas P. Guehlstorf
Section One: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Health, Environment, and Community
2 Strengthening Communities with a Socio-Ecological Approach: Local and International Lessons in Whole Systems 33
Nancy Edwards and Colleen Davison
3 Using Research and Restoration to Re-Imagine Safe Places in a Technologically Colonized Health Care World 68
Patricia Marck
4 Engaging with Nature in the Promotion of Health 99
Patti Hansen-Ketchum
Section Two: Deliberation, Policy, and Collaboration as Pathways to Integration
5 Deliberative Rule-Making for Human Health and the Environment: Making Administrative Discretion Safe for Democracy 135
Robert V. Bartlett and Walter F. Baber
6 The Social and Environmental Outcomes of Market-Based Wetland Regulations in the US Midwest 159
Nicholas P. Guehlstorf and Traci Lichtenberg
7 “Just Add Water”: Dissolving Barriers to Collaboration and Learning for Health, Ecosystems, and Equity 184
Margot W. Parkes
Section Three: Linking Ecosystems, Society, and Health through Learning and Local Knowledge
8 Situated Learning, Community Development, and Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Cuban Fishing Villages 227
Karen Morrison, John Fitzgibbon, and David Waltner-Toews
9 Religion, Environment, and Health 256
Anne Marie Dalton
10 Integrative Science and Two-Eyed Seeing: Enriching the Discussion Framework for Healthy Communities 280
Cheryl Bartlett, Murdena Marshall, Albert Marshall, and Marilyn Iwama
Contributors 327
Index 331
