Health, Wellbeing and Environment in Aotearoa New Zealand

Health, Wellbeing and Environment in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Susan Shaw
Publisher: OUP Australia & New Zealand
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780195585216

Health, Wellbeing and Environment in Aotearoa New Zealand provides students and with a sound introduction to the concepts of health and wellbeing within the New Zealand environment.

Nature and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand

Nature and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Catherine Knight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020
Genre: Human ecology
ISBN: 9780473538637

"We have never been more aware of the benefit of being out in [Nature], but how much quality time does the 'average' New Zealander spend enjoying the outdoors? While our national parks are places of spectacular wilderness, for many of us, these places are out of reach. This ... book argues for the restoration of 'neighbourhood nature' - places that all New Zealanders can freely access, irrespective of socioeconomic or other factors. New Zealand's experience of the coronavirus pandemic underscores how important these local oases of [Nature] are - and how vital they are to our wellbeing."--Back cover.

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health
Author: Bo Hong
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2024-05-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832548768

Climate change and rapid urbanization have significant impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. Nature-based solutions (NBS) is an action to work with and enhance nature to solve social challenges, and NBS is an "umbrella concept" for other mature nature-based approaches. Blue-green spaces (BGS) can provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including mitigation of urban heat island effects, reduction of flooding, mitigation of air pollution, and provision of recreational spaces, thereby promoting physical and mental health. Hence, NBSs can serve as cost-effective climate mitigation and adaptation tool that contribute to additional co-benefits for ecosystem health and human well-being. Environmentalists, epidemiologists, ecologists, urban planners, and policymakers have paid more attention to NBSs for urban resilience and human health. In this Research Topic, we hope to discuss these topics: (1) ecological exposure and health benefits; (2) climate adaptation and human health promotion possibilities by NBSs; (3) methodological and theoretical approaches as well as technologies of NBSs corresponding to urban resilience; (4) underlying pathways and potential mechanisms of NBSs in improving human health; and (5) policies and management for planning and design of the successful implementation of NBSs in relation to urban resilience and human health. This Research Topic focuses on, but is not restricted to the following issues: • Nature-based interventions for climate adaptation. • Ecological exposure and physical and psychological health outcomes. • Climate adaption environmental policies and management. • Theoretical and case-based studies on climate mitigation and adaption by NBSs • Ecosystem service perspective on promoting urban resilience. This Research Topic welcomes the following types of manuscripts: Original Research, Hypothesis and Theory, Review, and Perspective.

Te Wheke

Te Wheke
Author: Rangimarie Turuki Pere
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1997-07
Genre: Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN: 9780959799491

Wellbeing Economics

Wellbeing Economics
Author: Paul Dalziel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319931946

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty. Alternatives must be found. This open access book addresses that challenge. It sets out a wellbeing economics framework that directly addresses fundamental issues affecting wellbeing outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the capabilities approach of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, the book demonstrates how persons can enhance prosperity through their own actions and through collaboration with others. The book examines national public policy, but its analysis also focuses on choices made by individuals, households, families, civil society, local government and the global community. It therefore offers important insights for anyone concerned with improving personal wellbeing and community prosperity.

Built Environment through a Well-being Lens

Built Environment through a Well-being Lens
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2023-11-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264323120

The report explores how the built environment (i.e. housing, transport, infrastructure and urban design/land use) interacts with people’s lives and affects their well-being and its sustainability.

Beyond Burnout

Beyond Burnout
Author: Suzi McAlpine
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0143775073

Burnout is costing us. There are the personal costs to health and finances, organisational costs in lost productivity and sick leave, and national costs when it comes to healthcare services and similar. Following her own first-hand experience, as well as the countless similar scenarios she’s seen in her role as an executive coach, Suzi McAlpine has created a book about burnout to help create environments and organisational cultures that reduce its occurrence. This couldn’t come at a more important time. The World Health Organisation has upgraded the classification of burnout to a syndrome – believing it to be a significant factor influencing people’s health and, by extension, that of our organisations and societies. As well as actionable tools and key takeouts, each chapter/ section will include information about how to recognise the signs of burnout, and practical how-tos for leaders to reduce its presence in organisations. She also explains how to treat and address burnout when it is present.

Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Dianne Wepa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107477441

This second edition presents a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives adopted by experienced educators active in cultural safety education.

Haunted

Haunted
Author: Violet Sherwood
Publisher: Chiron Publications
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1630519901

The disturbing experience of psychological infanticide reflects the darkest aspect of the wounding of the Sacred Feminine - the Death Mother archetype that annihilates rather than nurtures life. Through myth, story, classic literature, biography, poems, art and dreams, Dr. Violet Sherwood weaves together symbolic aspects of psychological infanticide with psychoanalytic theory of traumatic attachment and the literal truth of a centuries-old history of infanticide. She illuminates the Death Mother archetype in the dynamic between the unwilling (or unsupported) mother and the unwelcome child. Her personal and archetypal journey into, through, and beyond the underworld, offers hope and guidance for the restoration of the relationship between the Sacred Feminine and the Divine Child. She draws on her professional experience as a psychotherapist and her lived experience of psychological infanticide as a result of closed stranger adoption to explore the intimate connection between life and death, revealing the life task of the infanticided psyche is to embrace death and discover the life that lies beyond the realm of the underworld.

Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand

Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Damion Sturm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1000528472

This fascinating book investigates the sporting traditions, successes, systems, "terrains" and contemporary issues that underpin sport in New Zealand, also known by its Māori name of Aotearoa. The book unpacks some of the "cliches" around the place, prominence and impact of sport and recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand in order to better understand the country’s sporting history, cultures, institutions and systems, as well as the relationship between sport and different sections of society in the country. Exploring traditional sports such as rugby and cricket, indigenous Māori sport, outdoor recreation and contemporary lifestyle and adventure sports such as marching and parkour, the book examines the contested and conflicting societal, geographical and managerial issues facing contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand sport. Essential reading for anybody with a particular interest in sport in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book is also illuminating reading for anybody working in the sociology of sport, sport development, sport management, sport history or the wider history, politics and culture of Aotearoa New Zealand or the South Pacific.