Nature, Cities, Health, and Healing
This report highlights the cultural and practical changes needed to protect Nature in cities and embrace the existing relationships and knowledges. This report provides its readers a new lens in looking at Nature by investigating the different epistemologies, ways of understanding, of health, nature, and community.
Systems of Power Working Board
The purpose of this Systems of Power board is to build confidence for community and grassroots led advocacy in health justice issues as they navigate political and governmental systems and their layers of entrenched power.
Right to Pollute Policies and their Epistemological Roots
This project brought together people with knowledges across a variety of policy, organising in healthcare and the criminal justice system, as well as environmental and climate justice.
The Living Indigenous Encyclopaedias For Health Justice
This digital encyclopaedia is a working archive of Knowledges from Indigenous, subaltern, and Land-Kinned Peoples that, when justly worked, with are relevant in making urban spaces life sustaining and contribute to ending the dysregulation of our planetary systems.
Principles for Engaging with Traditional Ecological Knowledges in Urban Systems
These are working principles set forth by a group of Indigenous Peoples and Land-Kinned Peoples who gathered in the UK. We see this both as a starting point and an evolving process. These principles are the first iteration, as they interact with more Peoples they will change and evolve.
Envisioning a Healthier Urban Way of Living: Indigenous Sovereignty in Los Angeles and Beyond
Tribal law scholar, Grace Carson writes in the first person about restoring the Indigenous identities and cultures to Los Angeles, where it has been systemically erased.
Pathways to Health Injustices for Indigenous Peoples
The pathways to poor health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples are multifaceted and interconnected. Here, we provide a brief overview of the devastating effects of colonisation, forced assimilation, displacement, and systemic oppression have on health.
Urban Sacrifice Zones & The Right to Pollute
The purpose of this data led study is to bring attention to everyday people those who have the right to pollute in their neighbourhoods, so that people can make more informed decisions when it comes to voting and priorities for our shared health and climate change action points.
Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, & Healthcare
The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised.
Heating & a Healing Home
When people can no longer use their home to heal and feel that they are in a place of rest, they are at greater risk of not restoring. The home in the case of higher costs is no longer a healer but a harmer.
Gasworks, Regeneration and Communities
Regeneration is a word used to promote positive benefit from construction and urbanisation. However, construction on old gas works sites without biologically adequate provisions are putting various communities across the UK at high risk for poor health outcomes.
Decarbonisation, Natural Gas, and Health
A data-led article on the toxification of Land in the UK at the hands of industrialisation whilst the general public is shamed and gaslit for their systemic need to get into a motor vehicle. All the while, millions of tonnes of chemicals are churned out into the environment.
Dear ‘Stop the Stink’ Campaign
This open-letter is a list of our thoughts and concerns based from attending a public meeting held between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Public Health England, Staffordshire County Council, the Environment Agency, and the community where Walleys Quarry Landfill site is located.
Lived Experience, Communities, and Health
This document will look at how industry gaslights communities, the mistakes science makes, and the significance of listening and acknowledging the lived experience. This report is for both practitioners and citizens who are experiencing environmental and health injustice.
Equitable Urban Mobility
This report is for those working in transport planning and in policy and who are interested in understanding the link between equitable mobility and health. This report will lay out the need for equitable solutions around transport, how health is related to mobility, and a breakdown of equitable mobility zones.
Creating Ecological Health Infrastructure
We propose that to stop urban inequity our understanding of what regeneration means needs to evolve from one that is capital driven and spatially focused, to one that is health driven actively targeting the environmental, social, and governance barriers to health.
Place & Health
This report will focus primarily on the role of the built environment because practitioners have a significant influence on the ability of citizens to build healthy relationships between health and place.
Air Pollution, Susceptibility, and COVID-19 Learnings
In any given area, there will be people who are suffering greatly from the consequences of air pollution whilst others may not see any consequences. This phenomenon is worth understanding, rather than dismissing it as not statistically significant.
COVID-19 & Biological Inequality; a London Data Study
This paper looks to approach the inequitable prevalence of COVID-19 from a biological perspective, drawing a clear throughline between human health and urban environments. Specifically, its relation to COVID-19 in BAME communities of London.
Air Pollution & Health in Southall, London
This report is the result of a co-designed and produced community-led scientific study highlighting the susceptibility of the Southall community and the need for stricter air pollution guidelines.