Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet

Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents unconventional ideas, practices, and ways of living to enable long-term human and planetary health, disrupting dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness, circumventing exploitative markets, and embodying alternative, more inclusive ways of practicing medicine.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 354 pages
Publication date: 10 April 2024
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet offers a unique perspective on creating sustainable communities that promote human and planetary health. Drawing on first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, the book argues that the most promising approaches to health often depart from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses. Instead, it 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 to the health of individual human bodies, 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.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487548667