The world has faced a number of health major health challenges over the past few decades – HIV, pollution, chronic illness, SARS. We need national and global health systems that take into account complex interactions between ecology, technology and social organisation.
Health in a Dynamic World
Agri-Food System Dynamics: pathways to sustainability in an era of uncertainty
The ‘modernist’ project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Countering orthodox notions, this paper makes a case for a deeper understanding of diverse ‘rural worlds’ in an era of short-terms shocks and long-terms stresses like climate change.
Empowering Designs: towards more progressive social appraisal of sustainability
The challenges of designing new frameworks for social appraisal aimed at sustainability and social justice are reviewed by this paper.