Abstract
The relationships between human health and the environment have captivated scholarly attention across a number of disciplinary and policy domains. This article reviews emerging health-environment research, which we categorize into three themes: complexity, uncertainty, and bodies. Although there have been robust contributions to these thematic areas from geography and the social sciences, we argue that integrating them into an analytical framework can extend geographic perspectives on scale, knowledge production, and human-environment relations, while also incorporating valuable insights from cognate fields. We conclude by reflecting on the normative contributions of this framework for research and policy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 711-728 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this report: Fieldwork in Sri Lanka was generously funded by the Social Science Research Council, American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, National Science Foundation (Award no. 1633991), and Society of Women Geographers. The manuscript was written with support from a National Science Foundation CAREER grant (BCS/GSS 1056683).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
Keywords
- complexity
- embodiment
- environment
- health
- health-environment interactions
- uncertainty
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
