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18.4 Organizing Resilience Management for Urban Health
Lessons from the knowledge of complexity science for urban health and well-being
(Gatzweiler etÂ
al. 2018) have taught us that “a system for governing knowledge and
action would need to have as much variety in the actions it can take as exists in the
system it is regulating”. That means organizing resilience management for urban
health needs to respond to some inherent features of complex urban systems.
Complex urban systems are not only multi-dimensional, they are multi-sectoral, and
the functions they provide (TableÂ
18.1) provide goods and services that have private,
public and common pool features.
Nature-based solutions to urban health under climate change are capable of
addressing the required variety of such complex urban systems. Resilience manage-
ment for urban health must combine and link the components addressed above:
1. Knowledge of urban system functions, climate change and health
2. Nature-based solutions (action)
3. Monitoring and impact evaluation
4. Learning and adaptation.
Setting up and governing knowledge-action systems (Fig. 18.2) is a response to
the need for solving urban health risks by resilience management. This can be and
is being done by scientific analysis of complex urban systems, involving stakehold-
ers in the co-production of knowledge, and implementing that knowledge in
decision- making processes. Setting up and governing knowledge-action systems
requires: (1) recognition of all urban inhabitants as the stakeholders of urban health,
and (2) collective learning. For all urban inhabitants – policymakers, business
managers, scientists, citizens and communitiesÂ
– not only are their health and well-
Fig. 18.2 Managing resilience for urban health by implementing and governing of knowledge-
action systems T. Elmqvist et al.
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Title
- Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Authors
- Melissa Marselle
- Jutta Stadler
- Horst Korn
- Katherine Irvine
- Aletta Bonn
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-02318-8
- Size
- 15.5 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 508
- Keywords
- Environment, Environmental health, Applied ecology, Climate change, Biodiversity, Public health, Regional planning, Urban planning
- Categories
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima