Alderson, P;
(2016)
Intergenerational justice, climate change and health.
[Lecture].
Presented at: BSA Environment and Health Workshop, London, UK.
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Abstract
The main global causes of ill health are seen as socio-economic inequality, the effects of climate change and armed conflict (MedAct conference, London, November 2015). The present and future health of the youngest generations, the third of people in the world aged under-19 years, is most endangered by these interacting causes. Interdisciplinary research is recognised as vital to make sense of these complex social-natural systems, such as in the interdependent health of humans, societies and ecologies. Critical realism supports interdisciplinary research in several ways, one example being theories of the possibility of naturalism, and the common ground between the social and natural sciences. There are also critical realism’s four interacting planes/levels of human being: physical bodies in material relations with nature; interpersonal relations; social structures; inner person-political being. The four planes offer ways to organise, analyse and connect widely diverse areas of social-natural human life in order to understand them more fully in context and in relation to one another. The planes can expand research into children’s capacities and the myths of the non-economic, apolitical ignorant child versus the wise adult. Critical realism’s four stage dialectic of transformational change provides ways to research processes of interdisciplinary change over time, to counter today’s short-termism in politics, the media and consumerism. Realism’s concern with morality and the transformational model of social activity in structure and agency encourage future-orientated research to analyse the dangers and the possible remedies that could help to promote intergenerational justice.
| Type: | Conference item (Lecture) |
|---|---|
| Title: | Intergenerational justice, climate change and health |
| Event: | BSA Environment and Health Workshop |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Dates: | 19 February 2016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.britsoc.co.uk |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1493239 |
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