Research in health geographies has seen the ongoing development of therapeutic landscapes. Emerging contemporary research explores nature-based health and health-enabling places. This book asks questions about the relationships between water, health and well-being.

Ronan Foley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, Ireland.

Robin Kearns is a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Thomas Kistemann is Professor of Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Medical Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Ben Wheeler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, UK.

1. Introduction PART I Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Water & Health 2. The Meaning of Water to Health: antipodean perspectives on the 'substance of life' 3. Keeping Leisure in mind: The intervening role of Leisure in the Blue Space - Health nexus 4. Sailing, health and well-being: a thalassographic perspective 5. To the waters and the wild: reflections on eco-social healing in the WILD project PART II Experiencing Health in Blue Space 6. From water as curative agent to enabling waterscapes: Diverse experiences of the 'therapeutic blue' 7. Dúchas: Being and belonging on the borderlands of surfing, senses and self 8. Blue Yogic Culture: A Case Study of Sirvananda Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas 9. No ducking, no diving, no running, no pushing. Hydrophobia and urban bluespaces across the life-course PART III Blue health inequality and environmental justice 10. The shadows of risk and inequality within salutogenic coastal waters 11. Thirst World? Linking Water and Health in the Context of Development 12. Wellbeing and the Wild, Blue 21st Century Citizen 13. Environmental uncertainty and muddy blue spaces: health, history, and wetland geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand 14. Conclusion: New Directions