ARTICLES
Kish, K., Zywert, K, Hensher, M., Davy, B. J., Quilley, S. 2021. “Socioecological System Transformation: Lessons from COVID-19” World 2 (1): 15-31.
Hensher, M., Zywert, K. 2020. “Can healthcare adapt to a world of tightening ecological constraints? Challenges on the road to a post-growth future” BMJ 371 m4168.
Hensher, M., Kish, K., Farley, J., Quilley, S., Zywert, K. 2020. “Open knowledge commons versus privatized gain in a fractured information ecology: lessons from COVID-19 for the future of sustainability.” Global Sustainability. 3:E26.
Quilley, S., Zywert, K. 2019. “Livelihood, Market, and State: What does a political economy predicated on the ‘individual-in-group-in-PLACE actually look like?” Sustainability 11 (15): 4082.
Zywert, K. 2017. “Human Health and Social-Ecological Systems Change: Rethinking health in the Anthropocene.” The Anthropocene Review. 4 (3): 216-238.
Zywert, K., Quilley, S. 2017. “Health systems in an era of biophysical limits: The wicked dilemmas of modernity.” Social Theory & Health. Online First Article, p. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-017-0051-4.
Zywert, K. 2017 “New Prescription: Designing a sustainable community care system in a world without growth.” Alternatives Journal 43 (1): 52-55.
Zywert, K. 2016.. “Medicine in the Anthropocene: Modern healthcare and the transition to an ecologically viable society. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) 2016 Symposium. OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, October 13-15, 2016
BOOKS
Zywert, K. 2024. Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Zywert, K., Quilley, S., Eds. 2020. Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Zywert, K., Quilley, S. 2023. “Health” in Wallenhorst, N. and Wulf., C. (eds.). Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham.
Zywert, K. 2021. “Planetary Health and Wellbeing from a Limits Perspective” in Kish, K. and Quilley, S., Ecological Limits of Development. Routledge.
Zywert, K. 2020. “Imagining Health Systems 150 Years from Now: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for the Future of Human Health.” In Zywert, K., Quilley, S., Eds. Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet. University of Toronto Press.
Zywert, K., Sutherland, W. 2020. “Making Medicine Work in the Anthropocene: Tenets of a Meta-Medicine for Complex Adaptive Systems.” In Zywert, K., Quilley, S., Eds. Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet. University of Toronto Press.
Quilley, S., Zywert, K. 2019. “The One Earth Approach: Planetary health in an era of limits.” In J. Cole (Ed.) Planetary Health: Human health in an era of global environmental change. Oxfordshire: CABI
MEDIA MENTIONS
2022. For Katharine Zywert, health care means nourishing both people and the planet. National Observer.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Zywert, K. 2024. “Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet.” Guest Lecturer. Sustainable Living, Bachelor of Health Studies Program, Royal Holloway, University of London, Virtual.
Zywert, K. 2024. “Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet.” Keynote Lecture. Forum ETHIC. Ecological Transformation of Healthcare in Switzerland. Virtual.
Zywert, K. 2022. “Cultivating Human and Planetary Health for a Sustainable Future.” Keynote Presentation. Centre for Planetary Health Policy. Germany, Virtual.
Zywert, K., 2021. Guest Lecturer, “Cultivating Human and Planetary Health in a Post-Growth World”, GEOG 426, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo.
Zywert, K. 2021. “Health systems in an era of biophysical limits: wicked tensions and prefigurative approaches” Panel Session, Health and Degrowth. 8th International Degrowth Conference: Caring Communities for Radical Change. Virtual.
Zywert, K. 2021. “Learning to prioritize human and planetary health in post-growth health systems.” Spotlight Presentation at Biennial Canadian Society of Ecological Economics 2021 Conference, Pathways for Inclusive and Sustainable Recoveries. Virtual.
Zywert, K. 2021. “Nurturing health across social-ecological scales: Investigating how therapeutic gardening, care farming, and the soil health movement can improve human and planetary health.” Lightning Talk at Planetary Health for All: Bridging Communities to Achieve the Great Transition. Virtual.
Zywert, K., Quilley, S. 2021. “Social-Ecological Systems for Planetary Health” in Social Sciences for Planetary Health, Side Event at Planetary Health for All: Bridging Communities to Achieve the Great Transition. Virtual.
Zywert, K. 2020. “Managing the Anthropocene” Breakout Session, Managing the Anthropocene and Stopping Pandemics Before They Start at Where do we go from here? Preparing our movements for the next 4 years. Progressive Strategy Conference, Massachusettes Peace Action.
Pershouse, D., Zywert, K. 2020. Interview with Didi Pershouse: The Ecology of Care. Life Saves the Planet Lecture Series. WGBH Forum Network. https://forum-network.org/lectures/didi-pershouse-ecology-care/
Zywert, K. 2020. “An Introduction to the new collection Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet” Ecohealth Knowledge to Action Research Group Webalogue Series https://ecohealthkta.net/webalogues/
Zywert, K. 2019. “Building Networks of Community Care in Times of Ecological and Economic Change: How care farming improves health across scales.” Engaging Economies of Change. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. Waterloo, ON.
Ruttonsha, P., Wright, K., Dordi, T., Zywert, K., Kurniawan, J., Hui, J. 2019. “(The) State(s) of Complexity.” Special Session, Engaging Economies of Change. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. Waterloo, ON.
Zywert, K. 2019. “Social-Ecological Systems Change and the Future of Human Health”, WICI Graduate Fellowship Awardees Lecture, Waterloo, ON.
Zywert, K. 2019. Guest Lecturer, “Social-Ecological Systems Change and the Future of Human Health”, HLTH 273, Systems Thinking & Health, University of Waterloo
Zywert, K. 2018. “Systems Thinking as a Tool to Promote Human Health and Sustianable Behaviour Change.” Leveraging Systems Approaches to Improve Human and Planetary Health. Waterloo, ON.
Zywert, K. 2018. “Imagining health systems 150 years from now: 14 researchers and practitioners discuss their best and worst-case scenarios for the future of human health” Improving Population Health in an Era of Social-Ecological Instability and Economic Contraction. Waterloo, ON.
Zywret, K. 2018. Guest Lecturer, “Health in the Anthropocene”, HLTH 370, Ecological Determinants of Health, University of Waterloo.
Zywert, K. 2017. “Social Innovation in a Time of Ecological Constraints.” SPARK! Social Innovation Exchange Toronto, ON.
Davy, B.J., Kish, K., Zywert, K., Quilley, S. 2017. “Environmentalism at the Margins: Exploring existing possibilities for an alternative modernity. Communities and Resilience Practices.” Resilience 2017. Stockholm, Sweden.
Zywert, K. 2017. “Beyond conventional sustainability in healthcare. Environmental Studies Association of Canada. Congress 2017. Toronto, ON.
Zywert, K. 2017. “Human Health and Long-Term Social-Ecological Systems Change: Emerging Alternatives for Health in the Anthropocene.” Planetary Health Alliance Inaugural Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
Zywert, K. 2016. “Medicine in the Anthropocene: Modern Healthcare and the Transition to an Ecologically Viable Society.” Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD5). Ontario College of Art and Design University, MaRS Discovery District, Systemic Design Research Network. Toronto, ON.
Zywert, K. 2016. “Aging and Death in Radical Green Politics.” Symposium on Aging Research (SoAR), University of Waterloo.