Acknowledgments

The community of people who have made this edited collection possible are due a heartfelt thank you. I would like to thank Barbara Katz, editor of the Advances in Medical Sociology series, for her vision and support as well as those at Emerald who have facilitated its publication, in particular Cristina Irving Turner, Nikki Chapman, Claire Swift, and Jaya Chowdhury of MPS Limited. A heartfelt expression of gratitude also goes out to a large number of very kind anonymous reviewers, you know who you are, who gave generously of their time and contributed thoughtful reflections to this interdisciplinary project. To the authors, all of whom persevered even when life presented many unexpected turns and challenges, I thank you! Colleagues in both the Ecohealth and Medical Sociology communities, I am grateful for your support of a project which aims to ark across a range of conceptual spaces and empirical preoccupations. Finally, thank you to my family and friends – all of you – and very much to my daughter, Arwyn, to whom I dedicate my efforts to build health for all to enjoy today and for generations to come.