Blue space, health and wellbeing: hydrophilia unbounded

Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between water, health and wel...

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Weitere Verfasser: Foley, Ronan (HerausgeberIn), Kearns, Robin A. 1959- (HerausgeberIn), Kistemann, Thomas 1961- (HerausgeberIn), Wheeler, Ben 1973- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:Geographies of health series
Ashgate's geographies of health series
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Zusammenfassung:Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between water, health and wellbeing. Water and blue space is a key focus in current health geography research and a new hydrophilic turn has emerged with a particular focus on the aspects of water which are affective, life-enhancing and health-enabling. Research considers the benefits and risks associated with blue space, from access to safe and clean water in the Global South, to health promoting spaces found around urban waters, to the deeper implications of climate change for water-based livelihoods and indigenous cultures. This book reflects recent theoretical debates within health geography, drawing from research in the public health, anthropology and psychology sectors. Broad thematic sections focus on interdisciplinary, experiential and equity-based elements of blue space, with individual chapters that consider indigenous and global health, water's healing properties, leisure and blue yogic culture, coastal landscapes, surfing, swimming and sailing, along with more contested hydrophobic dimensions. The interdisciplinary lens means this book will be extremely valuable to human geographers and cultural geographers. It will also appeal to practitioners and researchers interested in environmental health, leisure and tourism, health inequalities and public health more broadly
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xix, 241 pages)
ISBN:9780429631603
042963160X
9780815359159
0815359152
9780429633096
0429633092
9780429630118
0429630115

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