Mark L Wahlqvist1,2,3,4,5. 1. Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. mark.wahlqvist@gmail.com. 2. National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan. mark.wahlqvist@gmail.com. 3. Department of Nutrition, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. mark.wahlqvist@gmail.com. 4. School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taichung, Taiwan. mark.wahlqvist@gmail.com. 5. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. mark.wahlqvist@gmail.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Whether and how it might be possible to imagine a habitable planet through food and health. METHODS: Reflection on childhood happenstances, sociodemographic circumstances, educational opportunities, persons of influence and lifetime experiences insofar as they might have shaped a view of the past, present and future world as the sole rational home of us all. Confirmation of these notions by personal, kindred, and other contemporary records and publications. RESULTS: The need to live with uncertainty and an appreciation of connectedness with things animate and inanimate; and for this to be belief, identity, reason and professional imprimatur. That these things have unwittingly informed a near lifetime of interest and enthusiasm for how food and health systems are best served by socioecological approaches. CONCLUSIONS: That we are socioecological beings with a destiny dependent on reconciling ourselves, as earthlings, as to how well we keep our place in the cosmos habitable. To that end we must dream and work.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Whether and how it might be possible to imagine a habitable planet through food and health. METHODS: Reflection on childhood happenstances, sociodemographic circumstances, educational opportunities, persons of influence and lifetime experiences insofar as they might have shaped a view of the past, present and future world as the sole rational home of us all. Confirmation of these notions by personal, kindred, and other contemporary records and publications. RESULTS: The need to live with uncertainty and an appreciation of connectedness with things animate and inanimate; and for this to be belief, identity, reason and professional imprimatur. That these things have unwittingly informed a near lifetime of interest and enthusiasm for how food and health systems are best served by socioecological approaches. CONCLUSIONS: That we are socioecological beings with a destiny dependent on reconciling ourselves, as earthlings, as to how well we keep our place in the cosmos habitable. To that end we must dream and work.
Authors: Marco Springmann; Michael Clark; Daniel Mason-D'Croz; Keith Wiebe; Benjamin Leon Bodirsky; Luis Lassaletta; Wim de Vries; Sonja J Vermeulen; Mario Herrero; Kimberly M Carlson; Malin Jonell; Max Troell; Fabrice DeClerck; Line J Gordon; Rami Zurayk; Peter Scarborough; Mike Rayner; Brent Loken; Jess Fanzo; H Charles J Godfray; David Tilman; Johan Rockström; Walter Willett Journal: Nature Date: 2018-10-10 Impact factor: 49.962
Authors: Walter Willett; Johan Rockström; Brent Loken; Marco Springmann; Tim Lang; Sonja Vermeulen; Tara Garnett; David Tilman; Fabrice DeClerck; Amanda Wood; Malin Jonell; Michael Clark; Line J Gordon; Jessica Fanzo; Corinna Hawkes; Rami Zurayk; Juan A Rivera; Wim De Vries; Lindiwe Majele Sibanda; Ashkan Afshin; Abhishek Chaudhary; Mario Herrero; Rina Agustina; Francesco Branca; Anna Lartey; Shenggen Fan; Beatrice Crona; Elizabeth Fox; Victoria Bignet; Max Troell; Therese Lindahl; Sudhvir Singh; Sarah E Cornell; K Srinath Reddy; Sunita Narain; Sania Nishtar; Christopher J L Murray Journal: Lancet Date: 2019-01-16 Impact factor: 79.321