Reminder of Upcoming Deadline for Call for Papers: Special Session of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) Conference, May 30-June 1, 2012, Waterloo/Wilfrid Laurier
Session Topic: Healthy Places and Healthy People: Sharing Knowledge, Promoting Health, Sustaining Environments
Organizers: Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, PhD Candidate, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph; Sherilee Harper, PhD Candidate, Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Session Abstract: As our understanding of health and environmental challenges around the globe becomes more complex, peoples and ecosystems are increasingly interacting in ways that affect the health and well-being of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems. The complexity of these health challenges demand collaboration and transdisciplinary thinking among communities, health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers from the environmental, social, health, and natural sciences. Indeed, there are many fruitful opportunities for knowledge sharing, education, and research and policy innovation from these partnerships and more emphasis needs to be placed on uniting often-disparate disciplines and approaches to grapple with environmentally-based health challenges. Recognizing the need to bring together diverse stakeholders to grapple with complex health issues of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems, this session aims to connect researchers and practitioners from the environmental, social, health, and natural sciences in dialogue, reflection, and debate to highlight the latest research, innovations, and practice that work at the intersection of environment, health, and well-being. This panel is an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, methods, approaches, and experience around the ways in which ecosystems and environment impact health and well-being, and the implications for human health and ecosystem health in the context of global change.
We invite submissions from researchers, practitioners, and policy makers who unite environment and health from all disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives, geographical regions, rural or urban locales, built or natural environments, and peoples and populations. We particularly encourage submissions that illuminate challenges and recommend thoughtful and effective research, policy, and health programming response from environmental studies and health sciences perspective and/or consider both human health and the health of animals, plants, and ecosystems. Community-based, participatory research projects that explore the interrelations between environmental and human health from a transdisciplinary approach are highly encouraged. See attached CFP for more details
Instructions: Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to Ashlee Cunsolo Willox (ashlee@uoguelph.ca) AND Sherilee Harper (harpers@uoguelph.ca) by February 20, 2012 by 11:59 PM EST. Abstracts should include: Name and contact information of the author(s), including institutional affiliation and email address; A brief introduction and background to the topic of study; The theoretical framework or research questions, methodology or practice used; The main conclusions; and Implications of research and/or recommendations for policy.
Download Healthy Places Panel CFP_ESAC 2012 FINAL 1.pdf
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