Healthy Urban Environments

More-Than-Human Theories
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-65885-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Environment and Health

Set in the ‘human–environment’ interaction space, this book applies new theoretical and practical insights to understanding what makes healthy urban environments. It stems from recognition that the world is rapidly urbanising and the international concern with how to create healthy settings and liveable cities in the context of a rapidly changing planet. A key argument is that usual attempts to make healthy cities are limited by human-centrism and bifurcated, western thinking about cities, health and nature. Drawing on the innovative ‘more-than-human’ scholarship from a range of disciplines, it presents a synthesis of the main contributions, and how they can be used to rethink what healthy urban environments are, and who they are for. In particular, the book turns its attention to urban biodiversity and the many non-human species that live in, make and share cities with humans.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students in human geography, health sociology, environmental humanities, public health, health promotion, planning and urban design, as well as policymakers and professionals working in these fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maller, Cecily

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Redefining healthy urban environments

Part I: Understanding more-than-human theories

Chapter 2 The Affective Turn: non-representational theories, affect and emotions

Chapter 3 The New Materialisms Turn: materiality, vital materialism and assemblages

Chapter 4 The Practice Turn: social practices, performance and routine

Part II: Making more-than-human healthy urban environments

Chapter 5 Understanding health as more-than-human

Chapter 6 Cities as more-than-human habitat

Chapter 7 Changing practices for understanding and making healthy urban environments

Chapter 8 More-than-human healthy futures

Über Autor(innen)

Cecily Maller is a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow and Co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program – Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia.