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Intertwined Strands for Ecology in Planetary Health
| Title: | Intertwined Strands for Ecology in Planetary Health |
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| Authors: | Pierre Horwitz, Margot W. Parkes |
| Source: | Challenges, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 20 (2019) |
| Publisher Information: | MDPI AG, 2019. |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Collection: | LCC:Technology LCC:Science (General) |
| Subject Terms: | romanticism, ecosystems, rationality, relationality, living systems, interdependence, Technology, Science (General), Q1-390 |
| More Details: | Ecology is both blessed and burdened by romanticism, with a legacy that is multi-edged for health. The prefix ‘eco-’ can carry a cultural and political (subversive) baggage, associated with motivating environmental activism. Ecology is also practiced as a technical ‘science’, with quantitative and deterministic leanings and a biophysical emphasis. A challenge for planetary health is to avoid lapsing into, or rejecting, either position. A related opportunity is to adopt ecological thought that offers a rich entrance to understanding living systems: a relationality of connectedness, interdependence, and reciprocity to understand health in a complex and uncertain world. Planetary health offers a global scale framing; we regard its potential as equivalent to the degree to which it can embrace, at its core, ecological thought, and develop its own political narrative. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2078-1547 |
| Relation: | http://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/10/1/20; https://doaj.org/toc/2078-1547 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/challe10010020 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/ace2a90d24dd49b69b03c4436f681b9b |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.2a90d24dd49b69b03c4436f681b9b |
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| ISSN: | 20781547 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/challe10010020 |
| Published in: | Challenges |
| Language: | English |