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  • There is a need to rethink public health strategies to address the impacts of toxic exposure and stressors, especially in disadvantaged communities.
  • The emergent field of Sustainability Science is advocating for place-based approaches through a new bioregionalism for the 21st Century, which focuses on integrated planning across various scales and topics.
  • The paper highlights a case study in San Diego that emphasizes food-water-energy linkages and the crucial role of community-university partnerships in fostering healthier, more equitable bioregions.

Article Abstract

Dramatic changes taking place locally, regionally, globally, demand that we rethink strategies to improve public health, especially in disadvantaged communities where the cumulative impacts of toxicant exposure and other environmental and social stressors are most damaging. The emergent field of Sustainability Science, including a new bioregionalism for the 21st Century, is giving rise to promising place-based (territorially rooted) approaches. Embedded in this bioregional approach is an integrated planning framework (IPF) that enables people to map and develop plans and strategies that cut across various scales (e.g. from regional to citywide to neighborhood scale) and various topical areas (e.g. urban land use planning, water resource planning, food systems planning and "green infrastructure" planning) with the specific intent of reducing the impacts of toxicants to public health and the natural environment. This paper describes a case of bioregionally inspired integrated planning in San Diego, California (USA). The paper highlights food-water-energy linkages and the importance of "rooted" community-university partnerships and knowledge-action collaboratives in creating healthy and just bioregions.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554710PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2015-0050DOI Listing

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