Thomas Kistemann – författare

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.

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.

Dieser Begriff bezeichnet die Qualitäten und Valenzen von Landschaften, die in einem sehr umfassenden Sinne gesundheitsfördernd sind, wobei sich diese Wirkung keineswegs allein aus ihren physischen Qualitäten ableiten lässt, sondern die auch auf symbolische Weise kulturell erzeugt ist.

Mit zunehmender Komplexität der Haustechnik sind in Planungsprozessen von öffentlich-gewerblichen wie auch privaten Bauvorhaben – unabhängig von Größe und Investitionsvolumen – immer häufiger kontraproduktive Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Gewerken beziehungsweise den Systemen festzustellen. Die einzelnen Planungsziele – wie die der Betriebssicherheit und Energieeffizienz, des Erhalts der Trinkwassergüte oder des vorbeugenden Brandschutzes – sind gerade in fortgeschrittenen Planungsphasen oft nur noch mit erheblichen Mehrkosten und Zeitverzug zu synchronisieren! Das vorliegende Fachbuch vermittelt ein Grundverständnis von integralen Planungsprozessen und zeigt auf, wie schon in der Frühphase einer Projektkonzeption Zielkonflikte zwischen den Gewerken erfolgreich vermieden oder zumindest minimiert werden können. Zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele erläutern dem Fachingenieur potenziell risikobehaftete Schnittstellen. Schließlich werden auf Basis aktueller Gesetze und Regelwerke sowie neuester Erkenntnisse aus Forschung und Lehre zahlreiche Tipps für die alltägliche Planungspraxis gegeben.