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ent approach to behaviour change. The author argues for a ācapacities-first approachā
to support future citizens to become ābehavioural entrepreneursā who can identify,
execute and maintain the needed behaviours themselves. Supporting behavioural
entrepreneurs requires ensuring they have mental clear-headedness in order to iden-
tify, plan, self-initiate and regulate behaviour. As mental clear-headedness is a lim-
ited cognitive resource, behavioural entrepreneurs will need to spend time in nature
to help restore their depleted cognitive resources and cope with the stress of living
in their new world.
To embed health agendas in conservation management and vice versa, national
and global policy agendas need to be aligned across the biodiversity, health and
climate sectors. Horst Korn and co-authors detail these first steps and highlight the
developments in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the collabora-
tion of CBD with the WHO on the issue of health and biodiversity. In parallel, the
2020 Health Policy Framework of the WHO European region considers environ-
mental conditions; such considerations need to be strengthened to include specific
biodiversity linkages in the next review. The UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable
Development already links various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating
to health, biodiversity and climateĀ change, and it will now depend on regional,
national and local implementation to achieve its ambitious goals.
As attention on the importance of nature and health linkages increases, Hans
Keune and co-authors argue that there is a need to build bridges between the
natureĀ
conservation and publicĀ
health sectors. Giving case-study examples of nature
and health network initiatives from several European countries, the authors demon-
strate how professionals from science, policy and practice can work together to
address both nature and health goals. To facilitate future linkages between these
sectors, the authors recommend strengthening inter-network collaboration through
capacity building and integration. They additionally emphasize the need for struc-
tural support to encourage capacity-building activities. The authors stress the impor-
tance of linking existing priorities inĀ local, national and international policies to
mainstream the importance of natural environments for human health; in this regard,
the One Health approach may be one way to mainstream biodiversity and health
issues.
20.5 Implications forĀ Planning andĀ Managing Urban Green
Spaces forĀ
Biodiversity andĀ Health inĀ
aĀ Changing
Climate
The inter-relationships between biodiversity, human health and climate change have
implications for both urban planning and management. This fourth part of the book
deals with the implications of the inter-relationships of biodiversity and health in
the face of climate change for protected area managers, city authorities, urban plan-
ners and landscape architects. Evaluations of urban green space interventions to
20 Biodiversity andĀ Health inĀ theĀ Face ofĀ Climate Change: Perspectives forĀ Scienceā¦
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