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That the natural environment is a key determinant of health is unquestioned. A report published by the World Health Organization (Prüss-Üstün and Corvalán, 2006 p. 6) claims that ‘approximately one-quarter of the global disease burden, and more than one-third of the burden among children, is due to modifiable environmental factors’. However, even in its attempt to quantify the environmental burden of disease, WHO has focused on environmental degradation: ‘the amount of death and disease caused by factors such as unsafe drinking-water and sanitation, and indoor and outdoor air pollution’ (Prüss-Üstün and Corvalán, 2006 p. 6), paying little if any attention to the impacts of environmental deprivation. The same focus is reflected more broadly within ‘environmental health’ as a discipline and a profession.

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