Sustainable Development and Rural Public Health: From Fossil Fuels to Greener Futures
Hendryx, Michael
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-07-15
- 售價: $4,070
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,867
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 234
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031625080
- ISBN-13: 9783031625084
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商品描述
This book offers strategies and solutions for rural communities dependent on fossil fuel economies to enable them to transition to sustainable development.
The move to renewable energy development and use is gaining global traction and will inevitably become standard practice in the coming years, and yet vulnerable communities around the world remain dependent on finite resource extraction for local economic activity. What will happen to these communities as the fossil fuel era fades away? Dependence on declining resource extraction economies arises from entrenched short-term interests in political and corporate worlds, and in the knowledge, skills and opportunities that local populations have at their disposal.
The edited volume takes a public health perspective by showing how dependence on fossil fuel extraction and processing economies creates not only environmental and economic problems but also public health disparities. More importantly, rather than documentation of problems and obstacles, this book focuses primarily on solutions, on real examples happening right now in communities around the world to take charge of their futures. A series of case studies provide examples of local efforts underway in these communities to create sustainable economic alternatives to fossil fuel dependence. The final section of the volume describes theory-based and empirically grounded development priorities that are needed to make transitions achievable and long-lasting, including improvements in adolescent health and well-being, regenerative development, sustainable food systems, adult education, and community-based leadership. Finally, case studies and development priorities are integrated within a new rural development framework to guide other communities in their own transition efforts. Although the challenges are daunting, the book is ultimately optimistic and forward-looking.
Sustainable Development and Rural Public Health: From Fossil Fuels to Greener Futures is essential reading for public health practitioners and researchers, social justice advocates, and students in sustainability studies, environmental justice and related areas. Rural health professionals, community leaders, environmental planners, policy makers, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs also will find this resource useful for their work.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了策略和解決方案,幫助依賴化石燃料經濟的鄉村社區實現可持續發展。全球對可再生能源的開發和使用正獲得越來越多的關注,並且在未來幾年內必將成為標準做法,然而全球的弱勢社區仍然依賴有限的資源開採來維持當地的經濟活動。隨著化石燃料時代的消逝,這些社區將會發生什麼變化呢?對衰退的資源開採經濟的依賴源於政治和企業界的根深蒂固的短期利益,以及當地人口所擁有的知識、技能和機會。
這本編輯過的專著從公共衛生的角度來看待問題,展示了依賴化石燃料開採和加工經濟所帶來的不僅僅是環境和經濟問題,還有公共衛生的不平等。更重要的是,這本書主要關注解決方案,介紹了當今世界各地社區正在實施的真實案例,以掌握自己的未來。一系列案例研究提供了這些社區正在進行的地方努力,以創造可持續的經濟替代方案來減少對化石燃料的依賴。該專著的最後一部分描述了基於理論和實證的發展優先事項,這些優先事項需要實現可持續發展的轉變,包括改善青少年健康和福祉、再生發展、可持續食物系統、成人教育和社區領導力。最後,案例研究和發展優先事項被整合在一個新的鄉村發展框架中,以指導其他社區進行自己的轉型努力。儘管挑戰艱巨,但這本書最終是樂觀和前瞻的。
《可持續發展與鄉村公共衛生:從化石燃料到更綠色的未來》是公共衛生從業人員和研究人員、社會正義倡導者以及可持續發展研究、環境正義等領域的學生的必讀之書。鄉村衛生專業人士、社區領導者、環境規劃師、政策制定者、行業領袖和企業家也會發現這本資源對他們的工作非常有用。
作者簡介
Michael Hendryx, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He was previously a professor in public health at West Virginia University and has published extensively on the public health effects related to surface coal mining, especially mountaintop removal mining, in Appalachia. He was a previous TEDMED speaker and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. His primary interest now is in moving beyond the documentation of environmental, economic, and health problems related to fossil fuel extraction, toward identification and implementation of solutions to enable communities formerly dependent on fossil fuel economies to transition to healthier and environmentally sustainable futures.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Michael Hendryx博士是美國印第安納州布魯明頓市印第安納大學公共衛生學院環境與職業健康系的名譽教授。他曾任職於西維吉尼亞大學的公共衛生學教授,並在關於表面煤礦開採對公共衛生影響的研究上發表了大量論文,尤其是關於阿巴拉契亞地區的山頂移除開採。他曾是TEDMED演講者,也曾擔任澳大利亞新南威爾士大學的富布萊特傑出講座教授。他目前的主要興趣是超越對化石燃料開採相關的環境、經濟和健康問題的記錄,轉向確定和實施解決方案,使曾經依賴化石燃料經濟的社區能夠轉型為更健康和環境可持續的未來。