Landscapes for health

Elizabeth Wicks

Chapter 15 in Research Handbook on Human Rights Law and Health, 2025, pp 355-376 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter seeks to highlight the spatial context of health and health rights. It explores the concept of ‘landscapes for health’ by reviewing the evidence for positive links between landscape and health and their potential recognition under the rights to health, life, and to respect for private life. It emphasises the relevance of the concept of dignity within those rights and as a means of recognising the importance of the landscape around us. The scope for rights claims to therapeutic spaces within the health care context is assessed before broader aspects of the relationship between landscape and health are considered, including the role of nature in enhancing our well-being and protecting us against illness. With such tangible potential benefits to our health from certain landscapes, this chapter asks whether human rights law has the potential to recognise the role of landscape in protecting and enhancing human health.

Keywords: Landscape; Right to health; Right to life; Right to privacy; Environment; Dignity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803928029
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