In This Issue

Excerpt

Kingsley and Thomas begin this Oceania Special Feature with a forum that explores how to best integrate ecological and human concerns within governance structures. Their article highlights challenges to wellbeing discourse in research and policy frameworks and presents a case study from Australia that demonstrates complex social-ecological health problems in the region. They advocate for the need to reshape governance institutions to better engage with complex social-ecological health problems and to highlight that Australia offers an international relevant case study to address this task. Patrick and Dietrich follow with a short communication that presents findings of a qualitative study of global health and sustainability thinkers, ideas and principles for action on human and ecosystem health. Focusing on challenges in the Oceania region, the paper contrasts the principles identified in the study with the six principles for EcoHealth (systems thinking, transdisciplinarity, participation, sustainability, equity and knowledge-to-action), taking into consideration the implications for EcoHealth practitioners working in Oceania. Arabena and Kingsley’s forum article explores the importance of Oceania in informing ecosystem approaches to health research and practice. The article outlines the formation of the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter and the importance of diverse Indigenous and ecological knowledge and the environmental challenges of the region. …