Cities, Climate Change and Public Health: Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level (Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative (Aesi))

Ella Jisun Kim

ISBN 10: 1785273248 / ISBN 13: 9781785273247

Published by Anthem Pr, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cities, Climate Change and Public Health: Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level (Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative (Aesi))
• Publisher: Anthem Pr
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785273248
• ISBN 13: 9781785273247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

To date, climate adaptation has mostly focused on protecting physical assets from potentially catastrophic climatic changes. While the lack of human vulnerability and equity components in adaptation plans and policies has been critiqued by many, this has not yet led to climate adaptation planning and policymaking processes that situates people’s health and well-being front and center.

This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people’s understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. In addition, it aims to strengthen our understanding of different tools cities can use to operationalize a focus on the health implications of climate change, enhance collective decision-making capacities, and, ultimately, build human resilience to climate change.

About the Author

Dr. Ella Jisun Kim is at the World Bank, where she specializes in climate change and disaster risk management. She obtained her Ph.D. in environmental planning and public policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2018.