Geography, Health and Sustainability

Allison Williams is Professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University. She is trained as a health geographer in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research. She leads a partnership grant to create carer-inclusive workplaces. Isaac Luginaah is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Western Ontario and member of the College of The Royal Society of Canada. His research interests include environment and health, population health, and GIS applications in health.

• 1. Introduction; Part 1. SDG 5: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Girls; 2. Gender, Adolescents, and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana; 3. Sustainable Development Goals and the Internal Logics of ‘Gender Equality’ in the Liberian Context; 4. Global Trends in Women’s Employment in Renewable Energy: Continuities, Disruptions and Contradictions; 5. Producing Gender Statistics at Local Level: The Case of Mito-city, Japan; Part 2. Target 5.4: Value Unpaid Care and Promote Shared Domestic Responsibilities; 6. Gender Statistics, Geospatial Analysis and Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Mexico; 7. Understanding Women’s Unpaid Work and Domestic Work: Using Photovoice to Capture Immigrant Carer-employee Experiences in Southern Ontario, Canada; 8. Resource insecurity and gendered inequalities in health: a challenge to sustainable livelihood; 9. "Today men’s orientation has changed": gender and household water and sanitation responsibilities in Ghana; 10. Canvas Totes and Plastic Bags: The Political Ecology of Food Assistance Effectiveness at Farmers’ Markets in Minneapolis-St Paul, USA; Part 3. Target 5.6: Universal Access to Reproductive Health and Rights; 11. Internal Migration as a Determinant of Antenatal Care in the Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana: Does Length of Residence Matter?; 12. Longitudinal analysis of progress in women’s empowerment and maternal mortality outcomes: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa; 13. Mental Health, Quality of Life and Life Experiences of Ghanaian Women Living with Breast Cancer; 14. Event-History Analysis of Determinants of Breastfeeding in Cambodia: Evident from Demographic and Health Survey; 15. The World We Want: The Development We Want