Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I – Population Health in the Anthropocene: Addressing Wicked Problems in the Transition to an Alternative Social- Ecological System Guided by Ecological Constraints
7. Introduction 17
8. 1. Individual or Community as a Frame of Reference for Health in Modernity and in the Anthropocene 25
9. 2. “Regional Overload” as an Indicator of Profound Risk: A Plea for the Public Health Community to Awaken 60
10. 3. Medicine and Health Care in the Anthropocene: Who Pays and Why? 86
11. 4. Anthropocene Health Economics: Preparing for the Journey or the Destination? 107
12. 5. What about My Pineapples? The Wicked Implications of Nonlinearity, Embedded Systems, and Transformative Social Goals 140
13. 6. Imagining Health Systems 150 Years from Now: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for the Future of Human Health 155
14. 7. A Changing Role for Public Health in the Anthropocene: The Contribution of Scenario Thinking for Reimagining the Future 170
15. Part II – Emerging Social Innovations for Health and Well- Being: Prefiguring Viable Health Systems for the Anthropocene
16. Introduction 189
17. 8. The Role of Grassroots Social Movements as Agents of Change for Societal Transformation: The Example of the Transition Movement 196
18. 9. “Food as Thy Medicine”: How Ecovillages Foster Population and Planetary Health through Regenerative Food Systems 210
19. 10. Care Farming: Making a Meaningful Connection between Agriculture, Health Care, and Society 226
20. 11. Grieving Nature – Grieving in Nature: The Place of Parks and Natural Places in Palliative and Grief Care 241
21. 12. Nature as Partner: Rethinking Intersectoral Action for Health in the Anthropocene Era 251
22. 13. The Soil Sponge: Collaborating with the Work of Other Species to Improve Public Health, Climate Change, and Resilience 266
23. 14. Making Medicine Work in the Anthropocene: Tenets of a Meta-medicine for Complex Adaptive Systems in Precarious Times 285
24. Part III – Alternative Ontologies: Laying the Groundwork for Living Well within the Earth’s Biophysical Limits
25. Introduction 301
26. 15. Our Affluence Is Killing Us: What Degrowth Offers Health and Well-Being 306
27. 16. Nurturing Ecological Consciousness 323
28. 17. Bodies of the Anthropocene: Health, Ontology, Ecology 339
29. 18. The Exploration of Socioecological Approaches and Indicators in the Anthropocene 357
30. 19. Coming Back to Our True Nature: What Is the Inner Work That Supports Transition? 383
31. 20. Death Denial in the Anthropocene 404
32. 21. To Become Ancestors of a Living Future 419
33. Conclusion – Pursuing Health in the Anthropocene: A Synthesis of Current and Future Research Priorities 433
34. Contributors 447