Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded (Geographies of Health Series)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780429631603
Related ISBNs:
9780815359159, 9780815359142, 9780815359142
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns, Thomas Kistemann and Ben Wheeler
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Ronan Foley
Edited by:
Robin Kearns
Edited by:
Thomas Kistemann
Edited by:
Ben Wheeler

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