Environmental Health and Agenda 2030 in Africa

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-04-06
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Geographies of Health Series
• Antal sidor: 300
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041273370

• Referensverk och tvärvetenskap
• Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik
• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik

Louis Awanyo is a Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Luther College and the Department of Geography at the University of Regina, Canada. His research spans development geography, political ecology, environmental health, and the neoliberal geographies of agricultural reforms and housing, with a regional specialization in Africa.Frederick Ato Armah is a Professor of Environmental and Sustainability Science at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. His research addresses systems thinking, environmental pollution and remediation, climate change adaptation, environmental policy, risk assessments, and sustainability with the goal of improving management tools, policy, and environmental and health issues.Korbla P. Puplampu is a Professor of Sociology at Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. His research interests include globalization, digitalization, and innovation in agriculture and higher education; the state and capacity building; natural resources management and public policy; and the politics of knowledge production, citizenship, and identity in multiethnic societies.

"It’s hard to imagine anything more desirable than attainment of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, nor anything more intractably political or fraught to pursue. Here at last is a current survey of the health and environment questions raised by sustainability, viewed through the very welcome lens of political ecology, with contributors from across the globe."Paul Robbins, Professor and Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA“Given the increasing urgency of addressing the wide variety of sustainable development problems facing Africa and the world at large, this book comes at the perfect time. In adopting the perspective of political ecology, it helps remind us of the scale of the challenges ahead, the variety of ways of understanding these challenges and their interactions, and the dual scientific and political nature of identifying and implementing solutions in different contexts. In addition to a wealth of perspectives and cases, the book offers a much needed dose of hope that the Sustainable Development Goals are more than empty slogans, but represent achievable outcomes that can improve the health of people and nature across Africa and the world.” Chad Boda, Associate Professor/Docent, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Sweden“This is a timely and important contribution that brings together critical perspectives on environmental health, equity, justice, sustainability, and political ecology in ways that deepen our understanding of the complex factors shaping health and development in Africa.”Sheila Boamah, Associate Professor, School of Nursing Studies, MacMaster University, Canada“This volume makes a significant and timely contribution to political ecology and environmental health scholarship. Grounded in rich case studies, it shows with clarity how power, inequality, and governance shape environmental health outcomes in Africa. Rigorous and theoretically significant, the book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in health geography, environmental justice, and African development studies. “Juliet Thondhlana (Professor), UNESCO Chair in International Education and Development, Coordinator, Association of African Universities Europe Regional Office, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK“This remarkable book offers a new theoretical frame, from Africa, for global scholarship concerned with reformulating our understandings of the interface between health and the environment, and its implications for action. In our present global moment such new understandings are needed more urgently than ever.”Professor Isabella Aboderin, Chair in Africa Research and Partnerships, Chair, Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC), School of Education, University of Bristol, UK” A fascinating and important read! This book offers a compelling, wide-ranging, and unique account of ecological health in Africa, showing how human health is ecological health, and is inseparable from commerce, public governance, and sustainable development. This volume makes a valuable contribution to scholarship and practice, and breaks pathways for building a healthier, more equitable, more just, and resilient future across the continent.”Dr. Robert McLean, Senior Programme Specialist, Global Health, International Development Research Centre, Canada“This is a timely and compelling examination of the political, social, economic, and ecological forces shaping environmental change and health across post-COVID Africa. Grounded in African experiences, research and perspectives, it makes a vital case for an Environmental Health Political Ecology lens as essential to advancing sustainable development and social justice on the continent.”Godfred Odei Boateng, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Humanitarianism, Director, Global & Environmental Health Lab, School of Global Health, York University, Canada"A timely and important contribution to Africa’s environmental health discourse. By framing environmental health as the product of interconnected environmental, political, economic, and societal systems, this book makes a compelling case for integrated, multi-stakeholder action. It offers valuable perspectives for advancing Africa’s environmental health agenda in alignment with the SDGs."Bright Nwaru, Professor of Epidemiology in Respiratory Diseases & Allergology,Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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