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Planet.Health: An Ecosystem Approach to Imagine and Coordinate for Planetary Health Futures

Shannon, Geordan; Faddoul, Alix; Lai, Alexander; Lai, Tony; Lauer, Jeremy; Rajagopalan, Srivatsan; Issa, Rita; (2023) Planet.Health: An Ecosystem Approach to Imagine and Coordinate for Planetary Health Futures. Challenges , 14 (4) , Article 39. 10.3390/challe14040039. Green open access

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Abstract

Planet.Health addresses imagination and coordination challenges for planetary health through innovative approaches to social organising. This report presents the findings from the inaugural Planet.Health event in 2022, including the Planet.Health unconference. An unconference is a participant-driven event format that provides flexibility for emergent ideas and connections. In this (un)conference report, we share the challenges, achievements, and lessons learned during the initial year of activities in the leadup to and following the Planet.Health unconference event. We also discuss how the intersection of web3 and planetary health—a major focus of the first year—provides an alternative lens for envisioning, innovating, and coordinating beyond conventional social and institutional frameworks. We explore the potential impact of web3 technologies and decentralised social, economic, and financial networks and highlight the implications of these approaches for addressing planetary crises and supporting a flourishing human–environment relationship. As a new contribution to the planetary health field, this work emphasises the importance of building decentralised systems to foster creative actions and inspire global engagement for planetary wellbeing. The report concludes with some practical insights on how we begin to build and sustain decentralised social networks, including a discussion of the benefits and limitations of these approaches.

Type: Article
Title: Planet.Health: An Ecosystem Approach to Imagine and Coordinate for Planetary Health Futures
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/challe14040039
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/challe14040039
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Planetary health; cultural shift; community building; imagination; blockchain; web3; decentralised autonomous organisation; translocal coordination
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177870
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