Grand (meta) challenges in planetary health: environmental, social, and cognitive
Colin David Butler · 2024
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Colin David Butler argues, in a 2024 essay, that planetary health faces six grand challenges above its ordinary research questions. The field's name dates to the 1970s, when spaceflight stirred a wider consciousness of limits to growth. That awareness was suppressed for decades, he writes. It revives now under pressure from climate change and from aggression between nations. Butler faults modern scholarship for rewarding optimism and punishing alarm. The essay names the meta challenges the field must face honestly.
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| CREATOR | Colin David Butler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |