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Professor Colin David Butler is a co-founder of the NGO BODHI (Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight), which has autonomous branches in the (US ) and in (Australia ) and is (Professor of Public Health at the University of Canberra, ACT, Australia ). He is also a Visiting Fellow at the (National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health ), Australian National University. He is a former Senior Research Fellow of the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. His work lies at the intersection of sustainability, globalisation and health. Globalisation includes social, economic, cultural and environmental changes, at scales from the microscopic to the planetary. His main research interest lies in trying to find ways to advance sustainable global health for all, including people who are marginalized and oppressed. Over 200 published letters, papers, chapters and reports (to date) have concerned agriculture, climate change, demography, development, ecology, economics, engaged Buddhism, environmental change, epidemiology, ethics, future studies, general practice, global change, global health, health promotion, human rights, inequality, infectious diseases, nutrition, poverty, public health, social justice, sociology and sustainability. He is particularly interested in eco-social systems and the relationships between human conflict, resource scarcity and (human carrying capacity ). After training in medicine at the (University of Newcastle, NSW ) he worked for several years in rural general practice in Tasmania. He obtained post graduate qualifications from the (the Royal College of Physicians ), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Australian National University, where in 2002 he completed a multidisciplinary PhD. His thesis (and Sustainability ) argued that the unequal distribution of global political and economic influence facilitates "environmental brinkmanship" whereby the wealthy and powerful risk global environmental change of such degree that it threatens the fabric of civilisation. These ideas are forerunners of what has recently been called ("planetary health". ) He was awarded the 2001 (Borrie Prize ) by the Australian Population Association, for a long essay which traced the decline of Malthusian thinking within demography. It also suggested that a new cohort of demographers,taking senior appointments during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) was loyal to powerful, vested interests who denied the reality of limits to growth. This essay remains unpublished within demography, despite its prize winning status and several attempts. However, several versions of it have been published elsewhere, including in (PLoS Med ), health promotion journals, and in several book chapters. He was extensively involved with the (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, including the conceptual framework and the scenarios working group ). In 2005 Colin with two co-authors published a paper arguing that adverse global environmental change places the whole of civilisation at risk; in 2010 this was (updated as "Primary, secondary and tertiary effects of the eco-climate crisis: the medical response" ). He is sole editor of ''Climate Change and Global Health'', (CABI 2014) (climate-change-and-global-health.html ). He has given over 120 invited lectures, in 14 countries to date. In 2009 the French Environmental Health Association named him as one of (100 doctors for the planet ). In 2010 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. () The project of this grant is "Health and Sustainability: Australia in a Global Context." This was completed in 2015. BODHI was co-founded with the late (Susan Woldenberg Butler ) in 1989. It works in the field of international health, primary health care and education and is one of the oldest Buddhist influenced aid organisations based in the West. In 2012, Colin chaired the retirement conference to honour the career of Professor Tony McMichael (). In early 2013, Colin publicly announced his intention to be arrested and if necessary go to prison, by end 2014, for peaceful civil disobedience, in protest at Australia's participation in ("earth poisoning" ) - particularly the global coal trade and the (fracking ) of coal seam gas. On (26 November 2014, Colin was arrested at the Leard Blockade ) protesting against Whitehaven Coal's Maules Creek coal mine development in the Leard State Forest in NSW. Initially charged with a crime carrying a seven-year jail term he was later given a 2-year good behaviour bond, with no sentence recorded. Because of this, Colin was refused a visa to travel to the US, in January 2015, where he had been invited to act as a reviewer for the Planetary Health Commission (). In 2014 he co-founded an international research network called (Health-Earth ). In 2015 a book for which he was first editor ("Health of People, Places and Planet" ) was published by ANU Press; completing the festschrift for Professor Tony McMichael. E-versions of this are freely available. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Butler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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