生命经济学——人与地球的“共同行动”

生命进化从来就是多方面因素相互作用的变化,而这些相互作用领域的涵盖面和包容性使得相应功能变化呈现出"灰色"的特征。如果说进化是生命的自然形态,那么发展则是人对生命的自觉要求,而这层意义不仅在今天越来越明显和重要,并且在支撑多方因素互动的物质手段方面已经具有或者说达到了星际水平。在"人类世"的今天,灰色生命经济学的可能前景取决于如何实现人与地球一体化的功能跃迁,包括在人类命运共同体的意义上实行可控的、有节制的和适度的发展。     

Centralisation versus regionalisation: Designing the Sixth National Mental Health Plan

In response to the recent Productivity Commission report into mental health, the previous Federal Government announced its intention to produce a new national agreement that lays the platform for Australia's sixth national mental health plan. It has been recommended mental health move to a more regional model of governance and planning, away from a centralised, top-down approach, partly in response to broader reforms affecting health care, and partly in direct response to consistent inquiry evidence that the mental health system remains in crisis. The past 30 years of mental health planning have been centralised. Successive national plans set a broad framework, with real decisions about mental health funding and service allocation made in the health departments of our capital cities. Will the next plan sponsor or inhibit regionality in mental health planning? This paper assesses Australia's historical approach to health planning particularly as it affected mental health and the costs arising. In learning these lessons, we propose the necessary ingredients to facilitate a regional, innovative, and effective approach to decentralised planning, for better mental health outcomes. We cannot afford to replicate the failed planning approaches of the past.