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15. “Health as a Social-technical Enterprise Anchored in Social-ecological Justice and Stakeholder Collaboration: Insights from Mexico-Lerma-Cutzamala Hydrological Region”

Authors : Timothy J. Downs, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Morgan Ruelle, Ravi Kumar Hanumantha, Marisa Mazari-Hiriart, Matiana Ramírez-Aguilar, Carlos Santos-Burgoa

Published in: Handbook of Human and Planetary Health

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Human health and wellbeing depend on the health and integrity of ecosystems we co-inhabit with other species and the ways we use natural capital in our economy. They depend on the ways people are able (or not) to satisfy basic needs: breathing clean air, drinking clean water, eating healthy food, and having access to healthy housing, a safe and secure neighborhood, a stable livelihood, and healthcare. Science grapples with deciphering how environmental, biological, and lifestyle/behavioral factors interact to co-determine health. Meanwhile, major promoting and degrading factors are highly unevenly distributed across populations and landscapes; significant social-ecological health injustice prevails. We present four innovations to address recognized limitations of existing health research and practice: (1) an integrative framework to tackle innate conundrums and conceptualize important domains; (2) an integrative operational process for designing health-water-ecology-climate projects that enable multi-component research and its translation; (3) coupled mixed methods systems modeling-GIS/geospatial analysis, plus exposure vs. response/risk curves for groups with differential vulnerability to stressors—to reveal promoters and degraders of health, and structural injustices; and (4) a social-technical capacity building enterprise model to frame health-sustainability projects based on prior successful multi-stakeholder experience in Mexico. Our ongoing project—“Climate Change Impacts & Resilience in the Mexico-Lerma-Cutzamala Hydrological Region”—illustrates their application. We argue health, sustainability and climate resilience challenges be reframed as opportunities to co-create social-technical enterprises at different spatial, temporal and human scales, firmly anchored in the moral pursuit of social-ecological justice, and enabled by stakeholder partnerships.

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Title: “Health as a Social-technical Enterprise Anchored in Social-ecological Justice and Stakeholder Collaboration: Insights from Mexico-Lerma-Cutzamala Hydrological Region”
Authors: Timothy J. Downs
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
Morgan Ruelle
Ravi Kumar Hanumantha
Marisa Mazari-Hiriart
Matiana Ramírez-Aguilar
Carlos Santos-Burgoa
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Handbook of Human and Planetary Health
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-09878-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-09879-6

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09879-6_15

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