Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded

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Ronan Foley (Maynooth University, Ireland) Robin Kearns (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing

Hydrophilia Unbounded

Ronan Foley (Maynooth University, Ireland), Robin Kearns (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Thomas Kistemann (University of Bonn, Germany) , Ben Wheeler (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)

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Routledge
30 September 2020

Public health & preventive medicine; Human geography; Water sports & recreations

Series: Geographies of Health Series

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.

Edited by: Ronan Foley (Maynooth University Ireland), Robin Kearns (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Thomas Kistemann (University of Bonn, Germany), Ben Wheeler (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367661809
ISBN 10: 0367661802
Series: Geographies of Health Series
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ronan Foley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, Ireland. Robin Kearns is a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Thomas Kistemann is Professor of Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Medical Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany. Ben Wheeler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, UK.