The Greening of Health and Well Being by Miriam Kennet

The Greening of Health and Well Being by Miriam Kennet

This book presents current thinking and opportunities in Health, care and the very topical subject of Well Being for the individual and for anyone interested in their own health, the health of other people and health improvements in future for the current Age of Green Economics.

List of Contributors Sofia Amaral is at NOVA School of Business and Economics, PortugalHer field of interests include green economics and sustainable management. She is the lead editor of the Green Economics series book Green Economics: Reforming and Transforming the Global Economy. She specialises in looking at alternatives from around the world and how to avoid the stress of debt and poverty in Southern European Countries. Kanupriya Bhagat, is at the University of St Andrews. Originally, from Agra, India, she has been involved with organizations such as CRY (Child Rights and You), New Delhi, where she was part of the Digital Fundraising Department, and has a strong interest in publishing to help in this work. She enjoys collaborating with the Green Economics Institute in developing green economics into a global initiative. She is also concerned with women's safety on public transport. Professor Dr Vinca Bigo (France and the UK) )qualified at Cambridge University and is a Professor of Gender, Ethics & Leadership at the Kedge Business School in Marseille in France. She has published regularly with the Green Economics Institute and in its academic journal and her work theorises dilemmas of care and how we can change our conventional understanding of it to a model with is more inclusive and beneficial to the whole community. Rose Blackett-Ord is a graduate of Oxford University and Le Cordon Bleu. She now works as a freelance chef and writer, and has a particular interest in rural and green issues relating to food. Her work includes local, seasonal and wild food recipes for health. Rose writes green and gourmet recipes for a number of publications, including for the Green Economics Institute, where she co-edited a number of books, including the Greening of Food, Farming and Agriculture and the Greening of Poetry and the Arts which looks at how to obtain health and well being. Alan Cunningham trained in Public Administration and has worked as an Administrative and an Information officer. Following early retirement for family reasons, he has served on two regional working parties for public health campaigning for local action on health inequalities, the better application of public health policy by NGOs, and for recognition of the links between Public Health Practice and Sustainable Living. He has developed a local area profiling system that has been praised by MPs and by Health Observatory staff. He is an associate member of the Faculty of Public Health and of IUHPE. Professor Dr Graciela Chichilnisky PhD has worked extensively in the Kyoto Protocol process, creating and designing the carbon market that became international law in 2005. She also acted as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A frequent keynote speaker, special adviser to several UN organisations and heads of state, her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services and improve the lot of the poor. She is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University and the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University. Chit Chong, has been an environmental campaigner and environmental professional for over two decades. He has been a member of the Green Economics Institute since it started. He was the first Green Councillor to be elected in London and is now a member of the Alliance for Future Generations which seeks to promote the representation of future generations in the decision making processes of today. He works as an environmental consultant helping organisations and individuals to reduce their emissions from their buildings. www.LowCarbonKnowHow.co.uk W. Thomas Duncanson, Ph.D.,(Australia) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, USA. His research and writing has focused on the "speech thought" of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, as well as issues of communication ethics and public moral argument. In recent years Duncanson has written primarily about environmental advocacy and economic rhetoric. David Flint is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cass Business School, London and specialises in Healthcare as an advisor and as a trustee of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, and was founding chairman of Education For Choice, originally a charity providing educational resources relating to abortion and birth control and now part of Brook. He has spent thirty years studying Information Technology and its application and interpreting his findings for senior managers in business and public service. He has written two books and a great many reports, advised hundreds of organisations and lectured on four continents. Christopher Fleming is a Director of Griffith University's Social and Economic Research Program (SERP), a Lecturer at Griffith Business School in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, a founding member of Griffith University's Asia-Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, a member of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, and a Senior Associate of MainStream Economics and Policy. An applied micro-economist with teaching, consulting and public policy experience, Christopher's research and consulting interests include, social and economic project/program evaluation, natural resource and environmental economics, the economic determinants of subjective well-being, the economics of crime, the sustainable management of natural resources and the economics of sustainable tourism. Prior to joining Griffith Business School, Christopher worked as a senior consultant for Marsden Jacob Associates and as a senior advisor within the Sustainable Development Policy Group of the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Otago, a Master of Applied Economics with first class honours from Massey University and a PhD (Economics) from the University of Queensland. Eli Gregory explored how the Kibbutz system creates feeling of community and how this leads to well being. He was a Kibbutz Lotan volunteer and CfCE Professor Dr Sandra Gusta is an Associate Professor, Doctor of Social Sciences in Economy at the Latvian University of Agriculture, Department Architecture and Building (Latvia), member of the Board of LEA (Latvian Association of Economics), and a Member of the Latvian Association of Civil Engineers, Education and Science section and examines health projects in Latvia. Volker Heinemann is an economist who studied at the Universities of Goettingen, Kiel and Nottingham. He is a specialist in international and developing economics, monetary economics and macroeconomic theory and policy. He is author of the book "Die Oekonomie der Zukunft," "The Economy of the Future," a book outlining a green structure for a contemporary economy that accepts the pressing changes that are needed to outdated current economic thinking. He is co-founder and Director and CFO of the Green Economics Institute, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, trained at PWC and other major Institutions and is a Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics. He is a popular radio and TV speaker in Europe and a former Die Gruenen Councillor. He was on the team which organised the very first Green Economics and Well Being Retreat. Dr Katherine Kennet is a medical doctor who trained at Imperial College, London University, UK and also is a Global Health specialist. She is now based in the UK and has practised medicine in Nepal as well. Her research focus is on women's health status and the link to wealth and poverty. She has written extensively on materal healthcare in India and outcomes for maternal health and well being in Nepal, and is also interested in mental health and pyschiatry. Miriam Kennet is a specialist in Green Economics. She conceived and ran the world's first Green Economics and Health and Well Being Retreat. She is the Co-Founder and is CEO of the Green Economics Institute She also founded and edits the first Green Economics academic journal in the world, the International Journal of Green Economics, and she has been credited with creating the academic discipline of Green Economics. Green Economics has been recently described by the Bank of England as one of the most vibrant and healthy areas of economics at the moment. She conceived and ran the first ever Green Economics and Health and Well Being Retreat and has run several since. She is a member of Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute, both at University of Oxford. The BBC has made a special programme about her life and work. She runs regular conferences at Oxford University about Green Economics. Publishing regularly and having over 100 articles, papers and books. She has been featured in the Harvard Economics Review and Wall Street Journal as a leader. Recently she was named one of 100 most powerful unseen global women by the Charity One World. She is also a regular and frequently speaks at public events of all kinds, most recently to the North West Region of the National Health Service on the latest ideas in Health and Well Being. She is a popular after dinner speaker, and has advised in the Uk Parliament and the Bank of England and in Brussels on the Eurozone crisis, the high speed rail and the general economics situation. She has taught, lectured and spoken at Universities and events all over Europe, from Alicante to Oxford and Bolzano, and to government officials from Montenegro and Kosovo to The UK Cabinet Office, Transport Department, National Government School and Treasury and spoken in Parliaments from Scotland to Austria and The French Senat and Estonia. She is also very active in spreading Green Economics in Asia, China, and all round Africa where people find it may be one of the beacons of hope at the moment in an age of Austerity and Cuts as it provides a completely new way of looking at the world. She is on the Assembly of the Green European Foundation. She has a delegation to the UNFCC COP Kyoto Climate Change Conferences and headed up a delegation to RIO + 20 Earth Summit: Greening the Economy in RIO Brazil where she is very active. She regularly speaks on TV around Europe. Ryota Koike is a researcher from Japan, analysing post-Fukushima Japanese energy policies. He has a broad range of academic interests from peace and development to environmental and nuclear issues. He is a regular speaker and a trainer in workshops and a popular lecturer on green economics and energy policy including at a conference held at Oxford University. Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming. Bianca Madison-Vuleta has a long experience in the areas of holistic, ecological and sustainable living. She is a PhD candidate in Green Economics. Bianca has been actively involved in the work of numerous national and international human rights and environmental NGOs as a committed and inspired campaigner, fundraiser and reknowned public speaker. A passionate humanitarian and environmentalist and Co-founder of The Sustainable Planet Foundation, Bianca works tirelessly to be the change in the world. Ryte Mamacuviute is a green economist from Vilnius University in Lithuania, who has worked in China on issues of transport and also has lectured in hospitals in the UK about environmental healthcare issues. Virginie Martin, (France) is Associate Professor in Gender, Politics and Communication at the Kedge Business School in Marseille, France. Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira is a director of the Green Economics Institute, UK.She ran the worlds first Green Economics and Well Being and Health Retreat with Miriam Kennet. It was very well attended and a great success, inspiring her to create this book. She is very aware that human basic rights influence health outcomes and makes the connections in this book. She is a member of the Law School of the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), holding an MA in Human Rights Law with a focus on Islamic Law, Peace-Building, and Developing Countries. Founder of the Gender Progress Consortium, she holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Richmond, the American International University in London (RAIUL). She is a deputy editor of the International Journal of Green Economics. Her writing has been featured in Europe's World, one of the foremost European policy magazines. She lectures and speaks on Human Rights, Environmental and Social Justice, Gender Equity, International Development and Green Economics internationally. She also ran a conference on women's unequal pay and poverty in Reading, UK, lectured at the Oxford University Club on the human rights of land reform, is a regular speaker at international conferences and has appeared in the media in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. In 2010/2011, she was a delegate to the UNFCCC's COP15/16 in Copenhagen and Cancun, and in 2012 led a delegation to the United Nations' RIO+20, Sustainable Development Conference where she ran our three side events on green economics. Kristof and Stacia Nordin are the co-founders of Never Ending Food, a community-based endeavor to improve the health of the planet and all of its living organisms through the use of natural, restorative, and sustainable design principles. They have been living and working in Malawi, Africa since 1997 in the areas of HIV, food security, nutrition, and community education. Stacia is a Registered Dietitian and Kristof is a Writer with a background in Social Work and Community Organizing. They both hold Diplomas in Permaculture Design. Their 9 year old daughter, Khalidwe, was born in Malawi and is already an aspiring Permaculturalist. Don O'Neal has a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics and an MA in Environmentalism and Society. He has been the Oxfordshire Greens Treasurer since September 2000 and is a political columnist for The News and The Vincentian, national newspapers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He is a co-founder of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Greens. Don is a tireless campaigner and an inspiration for green causes and is involved in overcoming mainstream barriers to health and inclussion. As a beacon he has been up the highest mountain in St Vincent with a team. Vyacheslav Potapenko is based at the National Institute for Strategic Studies of Ukraine, chief consultant (from 2010); Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, docent (2000-2004); The National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", docent (1999-2000). Professional interests: green economics, natural capital, governmental management, green party, environmental security, Chernobyl rehabilitation, geospace analysis. Co-author of our existing book on Green Energy Policies and specialises in looking at health issues of nuclear power plants. Tutik Rachmawati is researching at the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham with a fellowship from Japan-Indonesian Presidential Scholarship/World Bank. She is also a researcher in Center of Excellence in Small Medium Enterprises (SME) Development and a Lecturer in Public Administration Department of Parahyangan Catholic University Lawrence Sappor is a health worker from Ghana and the UK. In 2006, he began research related to HIV/AIDS which was nominated as the best study in the department that year. His work aims at analyzing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and seeks to track its spread, since it was first reported in Ghana. He has been engaged in improving access to equal education, health and economic resources in Ghana for a little over two years, which has been an enjoyable experience. In addition, Lawrence has undertaken short courses in health and care for the disable including the aged for the past four years, themes about which he is very enthusiastic. His work has for many years entailed supporting the care and life of persons suffering with health related illnesses including COPDs, autism, asthma, dementia, and stroke. He has also undertaken training in medication and other themes involving supporting disabled people. Lawrence has collaborated with the Green Economics Institute, particularly on the subject of people suffering from COPDs in Windsor at the King Edward II Hospital with a focus on the effect of pollution on health and healthcare. As a green economist, his postgraduate degree in 2010 aimed to correlate deforestation and flooding to desertification, trying to find a link with natural circumstances that rehabilitate these regions. The thesis explored what happens when humans exploit natural resources and the consequences using Erdas Emagine software. During his studies, he used MapInfo to explore dotted mapping of health issues. David Taylor, is the Co-Founder of Earthspirit with Bettina Von Coels (Germany, Portugal and UK). The centre provides one of the most important spaces in the Uk for Green Education and Green Health Courses to take place. He runs the centre with Francoise his partner (France and the UK). The Green Economics Institute runs many of its courses and retreats at the centre and takes students there for field trips as it has very good and practical green systems in place. He is a life long green activist. He was influential in the Glastonbury music festival litter pick, and in founding the Green Gatherings, Green CND and also the Library of Avalon. He is a well known, very accomplished and popular national speaker on green issues, specialising in a more natural human centred and more feeling approach to professional activities. He has appeared on many TV and radio broadcasts and taught Miriam Kennet about Green issues and how to speak in public and continues to mentor her. He has also had a high profile in green politics. He is increasingly worried about runaway climate change and the effects it will have on his two children and he is currently seeking to unite disparate elements of the green movement to work more closely together in the face of humanities' most catastrophic threat in historic times and to address the threat from the current mass extinction of species. Dr Enrico Tezza is a senior training specialist and has a background in social research and evaluation studies. After a career in the Italian Ministry of Labour and local public institutions, he joined the International Labour Organisation in Turin in 1992. He is labour market advisor for the Green Economics Institute. Subjects covered vary from training policy to employment and active labour market measures. His current focus interest is on social dialogue for green jobs. His main publication was Evaluating Social Programmes: the relevance of relationships and his latest publications include Dialogue for Responsible Restructuring and Green Labour Market for Transitions. Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO, FZS, is a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic. He went to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Modern History. He joined the British diplomatic service in 1954, serving at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London until 1955. He was responsible for looking after the British Antarctic Territory; the experience gained may have laid the foundations for long term interests in the environment. He then had posting at the British Embassy in The Hague (1955 - 58)); Mexico City (1958 - 61); London (1961 - 64); Paris (1964 - 70); and Private Secretary various Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster (1970 - 72) during negotiations for the UK entry into the European Community. He was later Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977 - 1980), British Ambassador to Mexico (1981 - 1983), Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration (now Department for International Development) (1984 - 1987), and British Ambassador to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the UN Security Council (1987 - 1990). He was appointed MVO in 1958 and later knighted as a KCVO in 1983 on the Royal Yacht Britannia, to mark the conclusion of Queen Elizabeth's Official Visit to Mexico. He was appointed GCMG for his work at the UN in 1988. Sir Crispin was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1990 to 1993 and Warden of Green College, Oxford between 1990 and 1997, where he appointed George Monbiotand Norman Myers as Visiting Fellows. He was President of the Marine Biological Association from 1990 to 2001. From 1996 until August 2006 he was chancellor of the University of Kent when Sir Robert Worcester took over the position. He is currently director of the Policy Foresight Programme of the James Martin 21st Century School[5] at the University of Oxford (formerly the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding) and Chairman Emeritus of the Climate Institute, in Washington DC. He has many interests, including climate change, population issues, conservation of biodiversity and the early history of the Earth. Margaret Thatcher credits Tickell for persuading her to make a speech on global climate change to the Royal Society in September 1988 (though the speech was written by Thatcher and George Guise). He chaired John Major's Government Panel on Sustainable Development (1994 - 2000), and was a member of two government task forces under the Labour Party: one on Urban Regeneration, chaired by Sir Richard Rogers, now Lord Rogers (1998 - 99), and one on Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects (2000). A man of strong environmental convictions, he has been described as influential in Britain, although his environmental message has not always travelled as easily abroad, particularly to the United States. His 1977 book 'Climatic Change and World Affairs' argued that mandatory international pollution control would eventually be necessary. Despite his non-scientific background, he is internationally respected as having a strong grasp of science policy issues. He has been the recipient, between 1990 and 2006, of 23 honorary doctorates. He is currently the president of the UK charity Tree Aid,[7] which enables communities in Africa's drylands to fight poverty and become self-reliant, while improving the environment. He is also a patron of Population Matters. His main recreations include climatology, paleohistory, pre-Columbian art and mountains. Formerly he was :Non-executive Director, IBM UK (1990 - 1995),Trustee, Natural History Museum (1992 - 2001),Trustee, Baring Foundation (1992 - 2002),Publications: Climate Change and World Affairs, with a preface by Solly Zuckerman (1977, second edition 1986, Harvard International Affairs Committee).and Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, with a preface by John Fowles (1996, 1998 and 2003). He became Sir Crispin Tickel KCVO and GCMG in 1988. Jigme Tashi Tsering (Bhuttan) is currently working as a Senior Analyst in the Department of Investment, Druk Holding and Investment, the commercial arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan. Jigme has a Bachelors in Civil Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (ITT) Delhi, and a Masters in Environmental Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He has over eleven years of working experience and has worked in various capacities in the Government (engineer, technical auditor, and environmentalist). He enjoys travelling, which goes hand in hand with his passion - photography. Dr Jeffrey Turk (Slovenia and Belgium) holds a doctorate in particle physics from Yale University and after working as a physicist at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) he earned an MA in transition economics at the Central European University in Budapest and then a Dphil in contemporary European Studies from the University of Sussex and a research fellow at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Adademy of Sciences and Arts, where he researches realist biography and European Policy. He ran a research conference at the University of Leuwen on critical realist narrative biographical methods. He has produced many articles on Green Economics and methodological innovation. He specialises in biographical methodology and looking at the whole person in an analysis of what consitutes data and research and is head of research at the Green Economics Institute. Dr Michelle Wishardt lectures at Leeds Metropolitan and has worked as a researcher on a variety of projects funded by a range of international organisations. Some of these have entailed periods of work in East and West Europe. She has recently contributed to four ESPON projects (1.1.1 Polycentricity, 1.1.2 Urban-Rural Relations, 3.2 Spatial Scenarios and 3.3 Competitiveness and Sustainability) and is currently working on the Interreg IV SURF (Sustainable Urban Fringes) project. Michelle has also undertaken research outside the university sector including work as a Parliamentary researcher. Michelle's research activity has been primarily European in focus and most recently been concerned with issues of regional governance, migration and European spatial planning. She has developed expertise on EU territorial instruments and their evaluation and has regional expertise in Central and Eastern Europe. Particular areas of knowledge and interest relate to European planning and Cohesion policy, social inclusion, transport developments and various aspects of sustainability. Geographically areas of study have included North Yorkshire, Ireland and Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Tracy, Marchioness of Worcester is a campaigner for the greening of food, farming, agriculture and cruelty free farming that opposes agribusiness. She is a patron of International Society and Culture, a trustee of the GAIA Foundation, The Schumacher Society and the UK Soil Association.

The authors are experienced in Green Economics and their aim is to promote and create health rather than medicating people who become ill! One is Doctor to Prince Charles and Head of the College of Physicians and one is a Doctor specialising in Global Health from Imperial College, London one of the most prestigious colleges in the world, who has been working on health care in Nepal. The other is a well known speaker and who has just spoken at Manchester United Football Ground, and in the Scottish Parliament and in many governments and parliaments. She has been increasingly asked to speak about the impact of green economics on health, well being and care - and how it could seriously improve matters. So she has decided to put this book together after receiving many requests for it. She is a member of Mansfield College Oxford University and the Environmental Change Institute Oxford University and also founded the Green Economics Institute. She is founder and editor of the International Journal of Green Economics: one of the worlds only green academic journals which has been running for 8 years and she is author and or editor of 15 books and 100s of published articles,book chapters and papers and a regular speaker all over the world.

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ISBN 13	9781907543760
ISBN 10	1907543767
Title	The Greening of Health and Well Being
Author	Miriam Kennet
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Green Economics Institute
Year published	2013-05-05
Number of pages	386
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