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- Fudge, Colin Edward, 1945
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Foreword
- 2008
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In: Sustainable Urban Development: Volume 4: Changing Professional Practice. - 9781134071722 ; 4, s. xi-xiv
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Fudge, Colin Edward, 1945, et al.
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Science meets imagination–cities and health in the twenty-first century
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In: Cities and Health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2374-8834 .- 2374-8842. ; 1:2, s. 101-106
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Urbanism will be a dominant concern of policy-makers, planners, investors, researchers, businesses, governments and communities across the globe in coming decades. It has been projected that by 2050, up to 70% of the global population will live in urban areas. Cities and urban governance are being pushed to the forefront of both human and planetary health. Whether health and equity will be prioritised as a basis for decision-making is an open debate. Decisions–made or neglected today–will have impacts over time on human life and ecology, cities and health. Yet the processes of setting directions and making decisions are fraught. Life in urban contexts is complex and replete with uncertainties; the pace of change is rapid; values and long-range goals are contested; and information is incomplete or embodies various forms of bias. A new form of literacy is needed that can help us make decisions and act. Approaches to futures thinking are increasingly used at all levels and in diverse sectors to support decision-making, especially under conditions characterised by complexity. Methods are qualitative, quantitative or hybrid. They include visioning, Delphi studies, horizon scanning, scenarios, trend projection, modelling and backcasting. In combination, they often offer a systematic examination of alternative futures. This article explores the field of futures thinking in relation to cities and health. Importantly, it proposes a set of themes that will be the focus of a special issue of Cities & Health in 2019. These include the use of futures studies and foresight, the prospect of strengthening futures literacy, and the nature of policy-making and governance for improved population health within the developing global urban context.
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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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In: Cities and Health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2374-8834 .- 2374-8842. ; 4:2, s. 135-151
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- Grant, Marcus, et al.
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Cities and health: an evolving global conversation
- 2017
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In: Cities and Health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2374-8834 .- 2374-8842. ; 1:1, s. 1-9
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Cities and Health journal sees its launch in 2017. Looking back over half a century of growth and global expansion in economic activity, although there have been societal benefits, negative impacts are starting to take their toll on planetary resources and human health. As we enter what is being termed The Anthropocene, the city is becoming the preferred habitat for humanity. The imprint of city lifestyles, in terms of both resource use and waste, is found across the globe, threatening the ecosystem services that support our health. In cities themselves, due to risks and challenges to health, we are witnessing a rise in non-communicable disease, twinned with infectious disease for the many who live increasingly in informal or slum urban development. High levels of health inequity are found within urban populations. The resultant health problems are placing increasing strain on health services, with pressure only set to increase due to continuing urbanization and ageing populations. Evidence increasingly demonstrates that many aspects of city and neighbourhood form, urban and transport design, and residential environments play an important role in mediating health and health equity outcomes. The new journal Cities & Health is being launched to support political, academic and technical leadership and transdisciplinarity in this field. For this endeavour we will need to re-examine the nature of evidence required before we act; to explore how academics, policy-makers, practitioners and communities can best collaborate using the city as a laboratory for change; and to develop capacity building for healthier place-making at professional and community levels.
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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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- 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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- Wallbaum, Holger, 1967, et al.
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Lessons learnt from a regional workshop to develop a transformational plan for the built and urban environment to meet the UNSDGs in 2030
- 2024
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In: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. - 1755-1307 .- 1755-1315. ; 1363:1
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Urgent transformational change and action within the built environment is needed as it accounts for a large proportion of CO2 emissions and is rapidly growing. A partnership with UN Habitat and Mistra, the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research, was established to lead a high-level expert workshop for Northwest Europe to develop transformative roadmaps to lead us from current practice to a built and urban environment scenario where the 2030 UNSDGs are achieved. The workshop, aiming to act as a pilot for similar workshops to be held in other parts of the world, was organized around four worksheet sessions that guided the participants through a co-creative process to share and draw on their expertise generating and iteratively narrowing down ideas to actions. The workshop was held over 2 days with 30 participants from various countries and disciplines engaged in the built environment. A wide range of topics was identified to be focused on for action, however, 6 key themes were agreed upon as priorities: Renovation and adaptive reuse, Process and methods, Social sustainability, Nature and biodiversity, Infrastructure, and Sustainable livelihoods. The work towards realizing sustainable cities and buildings is ongoing and the pilot workshop is one step towards building collaborative capacity and facilitating regional, context-based action towards a sustainable transformation of the built environment
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