%0 Journal Article
%T Intertwined Strands for Ecology in Planetary Health
%A Margot W. Parkes
%A Pierre Horwitz
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/challe10010020
%X Abstract Ecology is both blessed and burdened by romanticism, with a legacy that is multi-edged for health. The prefix ¡®eco-¡¯ can carry a cultural and political (subversive) baggage, associated with motivating environmental activism. Ecology is also practiced as a technical ¡®science¡¯, with quantitative and deterministic leanings and a biophysical emphasis. A challenge for planetary health is to avoid lapsing into, or rejecting, either position. A related opportunity is to adopt ecological thought that offers a rich entrance to understanding living systems: a relationality of connectedness, interdependence, and reciprocity to understand health in a complex and uncertain world. Planetary health offers a global scale framing; we regard its potential as equivalent to the degree to which it can embrace, at its core, ecological thought, and develop its own political narrative. View Full-Tex
%K romanticism
%K ecosystems
%K rationality
%K relationality
%K living systems
%K interdependence
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/10/1/20