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20. Linking priorities in existing local, national and international policies: Existing
policies, strategies and guidelines may, individually, address the issues of pub-
lic health promotion, climate change adaptation and nature conservation. For
example, health is often implicitly named in landscape and urban planning leg-
islation when discussing climate change adaptation actions, and this provides
an opportunity for linking climate change, human health and natural environ-
ment issues. Linking these existing documents and policy goals fosters a win-
win, low-cost scenario in which the multiple co-benefits for human health and
biodiversity conservation can be achieved. Public health leaders should work
with governments, planners and ecologists to ensure that health considerations
are incorporated into national and local planning and development regulations
as well as environment and sustainability strategies and action plans.
21. Linking to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators:
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 20 SDGs present a
framework for collaborative action to respond to a range of global challenges
that cannot be solved in isolation. SDGs relating to biodiversity and health in
the face of climate change are SDG 3 ‘good health and well-being’, SDG 11
‘sustainable cities and communities’, SDG 13 ‘climate action’, SDG 14 ‘life
below water’ and SDG 15 ‘life on land’. To achieve the multiple aims of the
SDGs, it will be important to work across sectors to protect, manage and restore
the biodiversity and ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being,
and reduce the impacts of climate change. SDGs provide a focus on a specific
challenge to monitor progress, success and sustainability. They can also guide
regional, national and local policies and practices.
22. Fostering continued dedication to climate change agreements: In order to com-
bat the impact that climate change will have on human health and biodiversity,
it is important to ensure continued commitment to existing international policy
accords. As such, it is paramount that nations adhere to the climate change miti-
gation policies under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Linking these climate change-
focused policies to the health agenda will help to create alliances and innovative
implementation and funding schemes.
20.6.3 Recommendations to Implement Existing Knowledge
into
Practice
We know enough to act now. The chapters in this volume provide good practice case
studies that demonstrate how research informs implementation of nature-based
solutions to foster human health in the face of climate change. We identify two key
challenges with regards to design and planning as well as management for
integrat-
ing biodiversity and health issues when addressing climate change adaptation in
practice: M. R. Marselle et al.
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