Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet

Katharine Zywert

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University of Toronto Press
18 July 2024

Public health & preventive medicine; The countryside, country life; The Earth: natural history general

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.

By: Katharine Zywert
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781487548032
ISBN 10: 1487548036
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 18 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet

"""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"