Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education

This second collection for the special issue on environmental attunement delves further into the possibilities of reimagining health, sport and physical education in relation to people, place, land and broader policy debates and governance about sustainable development. The collection represents a modest effort over time to sustain and circle back to the initial appeal to how these concepts can come together (Welch et al., 2021). In setting out to establish a cohesive collection that responds to current socio-political objectives of shifting social and environmental priorities in health, and sociohistorical links to the present, the casting of a wide net as guest editors generated a space for a 'wild' and varied collection of ideas and research. Some authors explored those embodied and sensorial aspects of being in relation to self and others that have rich potential to connect to the more-than- human realm in health education, sport and physical education. Links to nature and land or Country in the Australian context also surface in this special issue as an important consideration for research that is methodologically attempting to understand and work with children's perspectives and Indigenous ways of knowing and being. A number of authors explore the potential futures of health, sport and physical education by examining the complexity of sustainability enactment across governmental, social and individual policies and practices. Other papers in this collection, mostly from the European context, engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the governance of space, as well as individual and structural factors that shape health education, sport and physical education.