This framework aims to guide the education of global citizens, practitioners, and professionals interested in understanding and addressing the complex Planetary Health challenges of our world today. The framework also seeks to inspire all peoples across the globe to create, restore, steward, and conserve healthy ecosystems for a thriving human civilization. We envisage that the framework will contribute to positive outcomes for the biosphere, overcoming the Planetary Health challenges before us.
The Planetary Health Education framework considers five foundational domains that we as a group believe comprise the essence of Planetary Health knowledge, values, and practice:
The framework can be understood as a common foundational language that serves as the cornerstone for diverse education strategies. To ground the framework in action, each domain includes suggested process outcomes and key Planetary Health themes and concepts. The work intends to move beyond thematic areas of interest or a prescriptive list of competencies towards the recognition of the diverse inquiries (i.e., the why/affective, the what/representation, the how/strategic) that can shape Planetary Health Education.
Read and download the full framework to learn more about the process of creating the framework and for a detailed description of each of the five Planetary Health education domains.
Citation for the Planetary Health Education Framework: Faerron Guzman, C., Potter, T., & Planetary Health Alliance. (2021). Planetary health education framework.
https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/resources/education-framework/
Read the brief Commentary published by The Lancet Planetary Health on Earth Day 2021: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519621001108
