Planetary Health and OneHealth – Overcoming Conceptual Limitations to Inform Earth System Governance in an Era of Polycrisis
Organized by Working Group on Planetary Health Justice
Efforts are underway by multilateral organisations, such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization, to engage with two contemporary concepts that inform earth system governance: OneHealth and planetary health. While there are interlinkages between the two concepts, there are also important distinctions that have implications for both health promotion and earth system governance. Specifically, the use and contestation of these concepts has the potential to influence efforts on health promotion in a world where our collective actions are concurrently lifesaving and life threatening.
This panel will first hear from an expert in planetary health and an expert in OneHealth, who will characterise these two concepts and provide tangible examples of their application in current governance processes. A panel comprising a researcher, a practitioner and a community member will then explore in depth these two concepts, including synergies, incongruencies and conceptual limitations, including their utility as frames to advance health promotion efforts. The panel will consider whether these two concepts have the potential to meaningfully inform earth system governance in an era of polycrisis and if so, to delineate the preconditions, barriers and/or enablers that must be navigated. This includes ontologies, shared values and core principles.
