Colin D Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin D Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2942-5294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Time Is Now
This article draws upon the findings of a Churchill Fellowship that the author undertook in 2023 exploring how First Nations people and their communities internationally are reclaiming child protection decision making. From visiting Aotearoa (New Zealand), the United States of America, and Canada as well as the experiences of Queensland and Victoria in Australia, the author will highlight the preconditions to change; the processes that First Nati…
Grand (meta) challenges in planetary health
The term “planetary health”, coined in the 1970s, arose from planetary consciousness, stimulated in part by the dawn of the space age, and commensurate recognition that our species faces extraordinary obstacles (“limits to growth”) if it is to fulfil its promise. While such awareness was then widely suppressed, awareness is reviving, driven by the now obvious perils, not only of climate change but also from weaponization and national aggression. …
A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa
The health sector response to dealing with the impacts of climate change on human health, whether mitigative or adaptive, is influenced by multiple factors and necessitates creative approaches drawing on resources across multiple sectors. This short communication presents the context in which adaptation to protect human health has been addressed to date and argues for a holistic, transdisciplinary, multisectoral and systems approach going forward…
Pandemics
Plagues, Pandemics, Health Security, and the War on Nature
This editorial presents a brief review of pandemics from antiquity to COVID-19. Although all large-scale epidemic diseases ("pandemics") can be considered ecological "checks" on human population size, and although COVID-19 is the biggest such pandemic since HIV/AIDS emerged it is not likely to approach the deathtoll of earlier pandemics, such as the plague. There are two major hypotheses to explain the origin of COVID-19. One is the "natural orig…
Limits to growth, planetary boundaries, and planetary health
Sounding the Alarm
There is growing scientific and public recognition that human actions, directly and indirectly, have profoundly changed the Earth system, in a still accelerating process, increasingly called the "Anthropocene". Planetary transformation, including of the atmosphere, climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, has enormous implications for human health, many of which are deeply disturbing, especially in low-income settings. A few health consequences of t…
Implications of Structure versus Agency for Addressing Health and Well-Being in Our Ecologically Constrained World
The long-standing debate in public health and the wider society concerning the implications of structure and agency for health and well-being generally concludes that structure powerfully influences agency, and does so unequally, exacerbating social and health inequities. In this article, we review this debate in the context of increasing environmental degradation and resource depletion. As the global population rises and environmental resources …
Nature, Gaia, Plagues, and People
EcoHealth and the Influenza A/H5N1 Dual Use Issue
Global health and environmental change
Global Ecology, Global Health, Ecohealth
Life on Eaarth
Governing for a Healthy Population
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of individuals, communities, institutions and nations is pivotal to protecting and improving human health and well-being in the face of systemic social inequity plus dangerous climate change. However, research on the determinants of adaptive capacity in relation to health, particularly concerning the role of governance, is in its infancy. This paper highlights the intersections between global health, climate change…
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
Emerging health issues
The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized, the Green Revolution was at its height and global poverty appeared less intractable. Global climate change had not yet emerged as a major threat to development and health. Most economists forecast continuous improvement, and chronic diseases were broadl…
Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being
Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in the loss of human well-being, but all ecosystem services contribute in some way to well-being. Although perhaps long obvious to ecologists, the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being, including health, have been less well understood am…
Peering into the Fog
Health Aspects of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
The consumption bomb
The explosion of the population bomb has long been predicted to cause massive famine in overpopulated countries. Rising consumption, even in a time of decreasing population growth rates, now threatens adverse global health effects more severe than localised famines. The world faces potential ecological entrapment. This has two dimensions: planetary eco-impoverisation and planetary eco-pathology. Eco-impoverisation, the depletion of natural capita…
Margaret Drabble
Des similitudes entre les deux ecrivains: leurs positions philosophico-metaphysiques respectives. Description du roman de M. Drabble a la lumiere de l'art de Wordsworth
Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being
Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in the loss of human well-being, but all ecosystem services contribute in some way to well-being. Although perhaps long obvious to ecologists, the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being, including health, have been less well understood am…
The Time Is Now
This article draws upon the findings of a Churchill Fellowship that the author undertook in 2023 exploring how First Nations people and their communities internationally are reclaiming child protection decision making. From visiting Aotearoa (New Zealand), the United States of America, and Canada as well as the experiences of Queensland and Victoria in Australia, the author will highlight the preconditions to change; the processes that First Nati…
Global health and environmental change
Margaret Drabble
Des similitudes entre les deux ecrivains: leurs positions philosophico-metaphysiques respectives. Description du roman de M. Drabble a la lumiere de l'art de Wordsworth
The consumption bomb
The explosion of the population bomb has long been predicted to cause massive famine in overpopulated countries. Rising consumption, even in a time of decreasing population growth rates, now threatens adverse global health effects more severe than localised famines. The world faces potential ecological entrapment. This has two dimensions: planetary eco-impoverisation and planetary eco-pathology. Eco-impoverisation, the depletion of natural capita…
Health Aspects of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Peering into the Fog
Emerging health issues
The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized, the Green Revolution was at its height and global poverty appeared less intractable. Global climate change had not yet emerged as a major threat to development and health. Most economists forecast continuous improvement, and chronic diseases were broadl…
Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being
Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in the loss of human well-being, but all ecosystem services contribute in some way to well-being. Although perhaps long obvious to ecologists, the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being, including health, have been less well understood am…
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Global Ecology, Global Health, Ecohealth
Life on Eaarth
Governing for a Healthy Population
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of individuals, communities, institutions and nations is pivotal to protecting and improving human health and well-being in the face of systemic social inequity plus dangerous climate change. However, research on the determinants of adaptive capacity in relation to health, particularly concerning the role of governance, is in its infancy. This paper highlights the intersections between global health, climate change…
Nature, Gaia, Plagues, and People
EcoHealth and the Influenza A/H5N1 Dual Use Issue
Global health and environmental change
Implications of Structure versus Agency for Addressing Health and Well-Being in Our Ecologically Constrained World
The long-standing debate in public health and the wider society concerning the implications of structure and agency for health and well-being generally concludes that structure powerfully influences agency, and does so unequally, exacerbating social and health inequities. In this article, we review this debate in the context of increasing environmental degradation and resource depletion. As the global population rises and environmental resources …
Sounding the Alarm
There is growing scientific and public recognition that human actions, directly and indirectly, have profoundly changed the Earth system, in a still accelerating process, increasingly called the "Anthropocene". Planetary transformation, including of the atmosphere, climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, has enormous implications for human health, many of which are deeply disturbing, especially in low-income settings. A few health consequences of t…
Limits to growth, planetary boundaries, and planetary health
Pandemics
Plagues, Pandemics, Health Security, and the War on Nature
This editorial presents a brief review of pandemics from antiquity to COVID-19. Although all large-scale epidemic diseases ("pandemics") can be considered ecological "checks" on human population size, and although COVID-19 is the biggest such pandemic since HIV/AIDS emerged it is not likely to approach the deathtoll of earlier pandemics, such as the plague. There are two major hypotheses to explain the origin of COVID-19. One is the "natural orig…
A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa
The health sector response to dealing with the impacts of climate change on human health, whether mitigative or adaptive, is influenced by multiple factors and necessitates creative approaches drawing on resources across multiple sectors. This short communication presents the context in which adaptation to protect human health has been addressed to date and argues for a holistic, transdisciplinary, multisectoral and systems approach going forward…
Grand (meta) challenges in planetary health
The term “planetary health”, coined in the 1970s, arose from planetary consciousness, stimulated in part by the dawn of the space age, and commensurate recognition that our species faces extraordinary obstacles (“limits to growth”) if it is to fulfil its promise. While such awareness was then widely suppressed, awareness is reviving, driven by the now obvious perils, not only of climate change but also from weaponization and national aggression. …
The Time Is Now
This article draws upon the findings of a Churchill Fellowship that the author undertook in 2023 exploring how First Nations people and their communities internationally are reclaiming child protection decision making. From visiting Aotearoa (New Zealand), the United States of America, and Canada as well as the experiences of Queensland and Victoria in Australia, the author will highlight the preconditions to change; the processes that First Nati…
Geography (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Biology (13 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Public health (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Population (8 works)