Overview
- Presents cutting-edge methods for the analysis of complex urban systems
- Addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective
- Provides integrated urban development strategy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Urban Health and Wellbeing (UHWSA)
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This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU). The unique feature of this book is its “systems approach” to urban health and wellbeing: solution-oriented for science and society and not purely theoretical, it can be applied in the context of decision-making, and has the potential to unlock cities’ unused potential by promoting health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the inter- and transdisciplinary urban issues addressed in this book are examined from a cross-sectoral perspective – e.g. the transport sector is addressed in connection with air pollution, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and the loss of productivity. The interconnected thinking to urban health and wellbeing makesthe book a particularly valuable resource.
Decision makers in city administrations and civil society organizations from different geographical regions will find the book an informative and inspiring guide for delivering towards the goals of the New Urban Agenda, for which health can be the vital indicator of progress. Graduate students and researchers will be attracted by the case studies, systems methods and models provided in the book.
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About the authors
Franz W. Gatzweiler has a background in agricultural, natural resource, ecological and institutional economics. He has university degrees from the University of Bonn and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Before becoming executive director of the global interdisciplinary science programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing, he was senior scientist at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, where he was principle investigator for research projects on marginality and technological and institutional innovations for rural smallholders, in Subsaharan Africa and South Asia.
Yong-Guan Zhu is a professor of Soil Environmental Sciences and Environmental Biology and the director general of the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
Book Subtitle: Implementing a Systems Approach
Authors: Franz W. Gatzweiler, Yong-Guan Zhu, Anna V. Diez Roux, Anthony Capon, Christel Donnelly, Gérard Salem, Hany M. Ayad, Ilene Speizer, Indira Nath, Jo I. Boufford, Keisuke Hanaki, Luuk C. Rietveld, Pierre Ritchie, Saroj Jayasinghe, Susan Parnell, … Yi Zhang
Series Title: Urban Health and Wellbeing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3364-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Zhejiang University Press and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3363-6Published: 06 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9855-0Published: 09 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3364-3Published: 22 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-3490
Series E-ISSN: 2510-3504
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 62
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, China
Topics: Environmental Health, Environmental Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Public Health