Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded (Hardcover)

1. Introduction

(Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns, Thomas Kistemann and Ben Wheeler )

2. The Meaning of Water to Health: antipodean perspectives on the ‘substance of life’

(Veronica Strang)

3. Keeping Leisure in mind: The intervening role of Leisure in the Blue Space - Health nexus

(David Jarrett and Sean Gammon)

4. Sailing, health and well-being: a thalassographic perspective.

(Mike Brown)

5. To the waters and the wild: reflections on eco-social healing in the WILD project

(Katherine Phillips and Antony Lyons)

6. From water as curative agent to enabling waterscapes: Diverse experiences of the ‘therapeutic blue’

(Karolina Doughty)

7. Duchas: Being and belonging on the borderlands of surfing, senses and self

(Easkey Britton)

8. Blue Yogic Culture: A Case Study of Sirvananda Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Nassau,

Bahamas

(Alison Williams, Ashleigh Patterson and Morgan Parnell)

9. No ducking, no diving, no running, no pushing. Hydrophobia and urban bluespaces across the life-course.

(Hannah Pitt)

10. The shadows of risk and inequality within salutogenic coastal waters

(Sarah Bell, Rebecca Lovell, Julie Hollenbeck, Mat White and Mike Depledge)

11. Thirst World? Linking Water and Health in the Context of Development

(Carmen Anthonj and Timo Falkenberg)

12. Wellbeing and the Wild, Blue 21^st Century Citizen

(Sarah Atkinson)

13. Environmental uncertainty and muddy blue spaces: health, history, and wetland geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand

(Meg Parsons)

14. Conclusion: New Directions

(Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns, Thomas Kistemann and Ben Wheeler)