Health-environment futures: Complexity, uncertainty, and bodies

Nari Senanayake; Brian King

doi:10.1177/0309132517743322

Health-environment futures: Complexity, uncertainty, and bodies

Nari Senanayake
, Brian King

Geography

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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
Pages (from-to)	711-728
Number of pages	18
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517743322
State	Published - Aug 1 2019

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© The Author(s) 2017.

Funding

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).

Funders	Funder number
Society of Women Geographers	BCS/GSS 1056683
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China	1633991
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China
Social Science Research Council
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

complexity
embodiment
environment
health
health-environment interactions
uncertainty

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Geography, Planning and Development

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Health-environment futures: Complexity, uncertainty, and bodies

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