Theory. Healthy communities must also be sustainable communities

Healthy communities must also be sustainable communities.

The author contends that healthy communities must be both environmentally and socially sustainable, given that health depends on the quality of the built and natural environments, and that global change resulting from the industrial economy is affecting the web of life. He argues that suburban sprawl wastes scarce resources and disproportionately places those resources in the hands of suburban ...

Sustainable communities: what should our priorities be?

ISSUE ADDRESSED Reports of the degeneration of Earth's natural life-support systems have focused the minds of those in the scientific, political and general communities on how to avert a collapse. For many health promotion practitioners the effective unit of social change is the community, the interconnected web of people and place that makes up a human living system. The challenge lies in dete...

Planning Sustainable Communities: An Appropriate Basis for Sustainable Residential Communities?

This chapter evaluates the impact of commodification of land and housing on the sustainability of the residential built environment. Commodification, an institutionalized practice in the western industrialized world, refers to the capacity of individuals to trade land and housing freely in the marketplace. This practice is so commonplace that it rarely undergoes any fundamental analysis in term...

Sustainable Development: Growing Green Communities

Background: The purpose of this study was investigate the dose proportionality of a novel, oncedaily, controlled-release formulation of hydromorphone that utilizes the OROS® Push-PullTM osmotic pump technology. Methods: In an open-label, four-way, crossover study, 32 healthy volunteers were randomized to receive a single dose of OROS® hydromorphone 8, 16, 32, and 64 mg, with a 7-day washout per...

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