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- Fudge, Colin Edward, 1945, et al.
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Transforming cities and health: policy, action, and meaning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Cities and Health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2374-8834 .- 2374-8842. ; 4:2, s. 135-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sets the scene for the special issue of Cities & Health Journal on ‘Transforming cities and health: policy, innovation and practice.’ It focuses on systematic transformations to meet sustainability and climate goals whilst also placing health at the heart of policy change and action. Our intention is to raise broad issues drawing on multiple disciplines and provoke engagement with this area of underachievement. We ask: ● How do we achieve action and momentum in transformational change? ● What are the key components for future transformations in terms of governance, business models, time and sequencing, scaling, leadership and imagination? ● Are there limits and barriers to what can be achieved? ● Do these demands require a more radical and fundamental change and strategic direction? In responding we note the policy-action gap and the failure to recognise the complexity in policy responses, the continuing growth of cities and the ongoing inability to address basic health needs, and we speculate about the changes that affect the context in which we work over the next decade. We highlight two case studies, where we are involved, that attempt to close the implementation gap and progress transformations. We then offer some further reflections in relation to research and practice in attempting to transform cities and health together to meet the Paris Agreement on climate change, the implementation of the UN SDGs and actions on biodiversity. In discussion, we return to the current pandemic and what this tells us about this moment, future transformations and the possibilities and limits to action.
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- Wallbaum, Holger, 1967, et al.
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Framework document on a Transformational Plan for the Built Environment
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris agreement on Climate change and actions on Biodiversity, Resource-efficiency and Circular economy call for deep transformations in each nation and globally which in turn requires complementary transformations and actions by governments (central, regional and local), businesses of all kinds, the professions, civil society and academia. The main problem is that stakeholders lack a shared understanding of how the 17 SDGs can be operationalized and localised as well as conflicting interests make this a Herculean task. Drawing on earlier work by others and our own work over the last 25 years we have considered what is needed in terms of a Transformational Plan for the global built environment if it is to deliver and progress the UN SDGs, the Paris agreement and actions on resource-management and biodiversity by 2030 under and beyond pandemic health requirements. This document proposes a framework for transformation operations and actions for the built environment based upon an analysis of the context, the principles and key concepts behind and underpinning the plan, the journey from 2020 to 2030. To illustrate the necessary level of operational transformations, we advance an action agenda for all stakeholders, key messages for government, cities, businesses, professionals, civil society, research and science. We propose a global approach based on regional nodes - of the knowledge owners on the ground – and an action timetable for regular monitoring of SDG Transformations and their implementation in the period 2020-2030. The “hands-on application” of the developed framework for a Transformational Plan to one region, the region of North-West Europe, identified concrete measures to achieve many of the UNSDGs by 2030. The top 12 of the selected examples are: 1. Organize citizen assemblies to develop ideas, build a ‘social mandate’, monitor progress by 2025. 2. Go ‘beyond the fragments’ and create a virtuous movement of the willing involving professions, research communities, building industries, supply chain partners, government, finance sector, clients and the development sector. 3. Reorganisation of responsibilities on the political and governmental levels. 4. Gradually change of the tax system (reduced taxes on labour and increased taxes on land use and primary material usage). 5. Extended and new provision designed and implemented to expand high-quality public green and blue space by 20% in all towns and cities by 2030, where at least 50% of new measures are in vulnerable neighbourhoods. 6. Ban sales of petrol and diesel cars latest by 2030. 7. Cycling infrastructure to be expanded (50%) in all towns and cities and between cities by 2030. 8. Major programmes of renovation and energy efficiency in all existing housing stock across the region by 2021. 9. Energy targets to be introduced on the building stock level. 10. Large scale expansion of sustainable and affordable housing across the region throughout the 10 year period. 11. State run innovative financing schemes for affordable building renovations. 12. Accelerate the shift to low embodied carbon materials and circular economy in all work by 2025.
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