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and international policy and practice support for biodiversity, climate change, and
human health.
Penny Cook and co-authors provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific
literature on the linkages between public health, climate change and biodiversity.
The authors demonstrate how access to, and use of, urban green spaces can reduce
social inequalities in health, a key goal of modern public health policies and pro-
grammes. Reflecting on the health and well-being benefits of nature, Zoe Davies
and colleagues discuss the management options to ensure that both biodiversity
conservation and people’s health are considered. The authors argue that the evi-
dence on biodiversity-health relationships suggests that green spaces should be
managed for both people and biodiversity conservation. As the consequences of
climate change and biodiversity loss will require humans to change their behaviour
to consume far fewer resources in a resource finite world, Raymond De Young dis-
cusses how to initiate long-term behaviour change. The author argues for a
“capacities-
first approach” to support people to become “behavioural entrepre-
neurs” and self-initiate behaviour change. To assess how health agendas are embed-
ded in biodiversity policies and vice versa, Horst Korn and co-authors review the
international policy agendas with the potential to foster linkages between biodiver-
sity conservation and human health, and identify alignments between sectors and
avenues for implementation. Reflecting on institutional aspects and challenges of
integrating nature and health, Hans Keune and co-authors highlight the need for
increased and improved collaboration between the health and nature sectors, as well
as science, policy and practice. The chapter presents several international/European
examples of nature and health network initiatives as well as various national activi-
ties in Europe alongside summarising successes and challenges of each initiative.
1.3.4 Part IV: Planning and
Managing Urban Green Spaces
for Biodiversity and Health in
a Changing Climate
The last part focuses on planning and managing green spaces in and around cities
for nature conservation, health and climate change adaptation. In particular, this part
discusses how managers of protected areas and urban green space can work with
other sectors to maximise the benefits of these places, and how landscape planners
can design urban environments that benefit both people and nature.
Kathy MacKinnon and colleagues provide a scene-setting chapter in which
they highlight the benefits and services that NBS and protected areas provide for
biodiversity, health and climate change adaptation, inter alia in the context of the
SDGs. The authors discuss the need for increased and improved collaboration
between sectors and stakeholders to foster the use of NBS and protected areas for
these multiple benefits. Complementing this chapter, Ruth Hunter and co-authors
review the effectiveness of urban green space interventions for improving health
and biodiversity and provide recommendations for research, policy and practice
1 Biodiversity and Health in the
Face of Climate Change: Challenges, Opportunities…
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Titel
- Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Autoren
- Melissa Marselle
- Jutta Stadler
- Horst Korn
- Katherine Irvine
- Aletta Bonn
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-02318-8
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 508
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Environmental health, Applied ecology, Climate change, Biodiversity, Public health, Regional planning, Urban planning
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima