Planetary Health Governance: A Tool of Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainable Development

Planetary health governance (PHG) comprises the interconnectivity of health, environment, and sustainable development. PHG is one of a range of approaches that are being used to understand and govern the relationship between health and the environment. In this regard, the chapter focuses on literature that specifically discusses the PHG about transdisciplinary collaborations, sustainable development, and how they are being conceptualized. As such, the chapter explores the contribution of disciplines with stakes in environment and health as one. The conduct of literature search was done through PubMed, Web of Science (all databases), Science Direct, ProQuest (environmental), and EMBASE databases. An additional search was performed in Google Scholar to identify literature on environment and health governance as one. The disciplines are global health governance, ecological public health, health geographies, and sustainable development in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve the feat, the chapter was constructed by answering the following questions: what does environmental governance mean? What does health governance mean? What are the interconnections between environment and health governance? What are the potential contributions of global health governance, ecological public health, health geographies, and sustainable development as disciplines that address environmental and health issues through the SDGs viewpoint? Answers to these questions provide insight into how the highlighted disciplines address planetary health challenges and also conceptualize several research questions that emerged from the literature.