Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Part 1: Images and Models of Public Health 1. Introducing the Notion of Ecological Public Health 2. Defining Public Health 3. The Recevied Wisdom of Public Health Part 2: The Transitions which Public Health has to Address Introduction to Part 2 4. Demographic Transition 5. Epidemiological and Health Transition 6. Urban Transition 7. Energy Transition 8. Economic Transition 9. The Nutrition Transition 10. Biological and Ecological Transition 11. Cultural Transition 12. Democratic Transition Conclusion to Part 2 – An Overview of the Transitions Part 3: Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health 13. The Implications of Ecological Public Health References Index

About the Author

Geof Rayner is an independent expert in Health, Wellness and Nutrition, and is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City University London. Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University London and has authored or co-authored a number of influential books including The Atlas of Food (Earthscan, 2003 and 2008) and Food Wars (Earthscan, 2004).

Reviews

Ecological Public Health came Highly Commended in the Public Health category for the 2013 BMA Medical Book and Patient Information Awards. "Rich in understanding the history of the public health movement, the authors argue that a new ecological sense of public health is emerging based on the recognition of the limits on nature, that nature no longer offers an endless cornucopia of its resources for human use or that the biological world can be ceaselessly altered to human advantage." – Food Ethics Council Newsletter, July 2012 "...this book offers an exemplary account of ecological thinking and is extremely persuasive in arguing for the adoption of an ecological perspective when addressing the seemingly intractable health problems of modern society. It has the scope to invigorate public health, as both project and practice, by providing new and important ways of thinking about both the aetiology of health and respondent intervention activities. As a result, I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in public health, from students and academics to policy makers and practitioners." – Rhiannon Evans, Cardiff University, in Critical Public Health (2013, vol.23)"Their analysis of the food system, its current negative impacts and the potential for change is exemplary, drawing on their own scholarship and work with policy makers… Overall, the authors’ work on historical and conceptual synthesis is illuminating." – Donald C. Cole, University of Toronto, Canada