Title |
Urban governance and the systems approaches to health-environment co-benefits in cities
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Published in |
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, November 2015
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DOI | 10.1590/0102-311x00010015 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jose A Puppim de Oliveira, Christopher N H Doll, José Siri, Magali Dreyfus, Hooman Farzaneh, Anthony Capon |
Abstract |
The term "co-benefits" refers to positive outcomes accruing from a policy beyond the intended outcome, often or usually in other sectors. In the urban context, policies implemented in particular sectors (such as transport, energy or waste) often generate multiple co-benefits in other areas. Such benefits may be related to the reduction of local or global environmental impacts and also extend into the area of public health. A key to identifying and realising co-benefits is the adoption of systems approaches to understand inter-sectoral linkages and, in particular, the translation of this understanding to improved sector-specific and city governance. This paper reviews a range of policies which can yield health and climate co-benefits across different urban sectors and illustrates, through a series of cases, how taking a systems approach can lead to innovations in urban governance which aid the development of healthy and sustainable cities. |
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Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 41 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 4 | 10% |
Unspecified | 3 | 7% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 5% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 2% |
Student > Bachelor | 1 | 2% |
Other | 2 | 5% |
Unknown | 28 | 68% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Environmental Science | 6 | 15% |
Unspecified | 3 | 7% |
Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
Other | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 28 | 68% |