Special Issue "Environmental Communication and Health Promotion"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Constantina Skanavis
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Guest Editor
Department of Public & Community Health, University of West Attica, 196 Leof. Alexandras, Athens, Greece
Interests: environmental communication; education and public health promotion

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, biodiversity, the climate—are our life-support systems. However, climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution, and other threats are degrading these systems. An eco-cultural health perspective based on understanding the linkages between human activities, ecological and cultural disruption, and public health is essential for addressing these threats and achieving global sustainability.

Science is frequently called upon to provide guidance in the work towards sustainable development. However, for science to promote action, it is not sufficient that scientific advice is seen as competent and trustworthy. Such advice must also be perceived as meaningful and important, showing the need and urgency of taking action.

In order to tackle environmental problems, professionals must be able to effectively translate the science, communicate costs and benefits effectively, and engage stakeholders throughout the process.

As the human dimensions of environmental change become increasingly recognized as central to our understanding of both how humans shape our environment and are affected by its degradation, environmental communication and health promotion could arguably become the reigning approach to change our mindset and consequently our actions. It is suggested that deep introspection about our current value system is required to achieve a paradigm shift that could reverse current trends and lead both to improvements in health globally and to less human insecurity.

Prof. Dr. Constantina Skanavis
Guest Editor

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Understanding the Dynamics of Green and Blue Spaces for Health and Wellbeing Outcomes in Ireland: A Systemic Stakeholder Perspective
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9553; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179553 (registering DOI) - 25 Aug 2021
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Despite the recognised benefits to human health from green and blue spaces, socioeconomic inequalities in access to and use of such spaces have been observed. Using a multidisciplinary, multistakeholder systems approach and structural equation modelling, this paper examines the structural and behavioural dynamics [...] Read more.
Despite the recognised benefits to human health from green and blue spaces, socioeconomic inequalities in access to and use of such spaces have been observed. Using a multidisciplinary, multistakeholder systems approach and structural equation modelling, this paper examines the structural and behavioural dynamics of green and blue spaces, people and health and wellbeing outcomes. Systems thinking offers a deeper understanding of the dynamics of collective choices at all levels within the determinants and the circular causality of these processes. The resulting map shows that behavioural and structural dynamics of green and blue spaces reinforce social cohesion, mental and physical benefits and their circular causality. Acknowledging the importance of multiple uses of green and blue spaces, this paper concludes that delivering universal services at a scale and intensity proportionate to the degree of need is vital to ensure services and health and wellbeing benefits are available to all, not only the most advantaged. Full article
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