Interview with Stephen Boyden

15th June 2007

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Professor Tony Capon, urban health consultant at the Australian Health Policy Institute and director of the "Environmental design for prevention" workstream at OxHA, met with Professor Stephen Boyden and asked him the following questions.

The choice is yours - watch the full interview or answer by answer.

Question 1
Could you tell us more about bio-history and what that means?

Question 2
Is there an example in bio-history which could be applied to chronic diseases and well-being?

Question 3
You did some important work during the 1970's regarding urban metabolism. Did you find any connections here to human metabolism?

Question 4
One of your more recent books is 'People and Nature: The Big Picture'. Could you tell us more about this and the context for that work?

Question 5
Your book was published by 'The Nature and Society Forum'. Can you tell us more about the forum?

Question 6
Can you tell us about the 'Social Change' project?

Question 7
Are you optimistic that we can make the necessary changes required of us in the 21st century?