Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
School of Resources and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Lancet Planet Health. 2023 Feb;7(2):e179-e183. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00334-5.
Decolonial planetary health aspires to centre the diversity and importance of Indigenous thought and stewardship. In this Viewpoint, we explore research in planetary health across holistic worldviews and western scientific approaches. We base our examination of decolonising interventions in planetary health by exploring how global trajectories play out in British Columbia, Canada. A central part of this analysis is highlighting intercultural thinking to promote an anti-colonial, anti-racist, and reciprocal approach to climate change and global health inequities across geographical space and within planetary health discourse. Our perspective encompasses an asset-based examination, which focuses on the Indigenous scholarship in planetary health that is already underway and considers how rigorous engagement with epistemic and geographical diversity can strengthen and advance planetary health. This is a place-based response to planetary health, as British Columbia experiences climate catastrophes that are impacting whole communities, cutting through major transportation systems, disrupting supply chains, and creating a further burden on public health agencies and authorities that are spread thin by COVID-19 response. We argue for a progressive acknowledgment of decolonising work that is pushing research and practice in planetary health forward.
去殖民化的行星健康旨在关注原住民思想和管理的多样性和重要性。在本观点中，我们探讨了跨越整体世界观和西方科学方法的行星健康研究。我们通过探索全球轨迹在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的表现来检验行星健康中的去殖民化干预措施。这一分析的一个核心部分是强调跨文化思维，以促进在地理空间和行星健康话语中应对气候变化和全球健康不平等的反殖民、反种族主义和互惠方法。我们的观点包括基于资产的审查，重点关注已经在进行的行星健康中的原住民学术研究，并考虑如何严格参与认识论和地理多样性可以加强和推进行星健康。这是对行星健康的一种基于地点的回应，因为不列颠哥伦比亚省正在经历影响整个社区的气候灾难，这些灾难贯穿主要交通系统，扰乱供应链，并对公共卫生机构和当局造成进一步负担，这些机构因 COVID-19 应对而捉襟见肘。我们主张逐步承认推动行星健康研究和实践的去殖民化工作。
