Governance and networks for health co-benefits of climate change mitigation : Lessons from two Indian cities

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Health has been the main driver for many urban environmental interventions, particularly in cases of significant health problems linked to poor urban environmental conditions. This paper examines empirically the links between climate change mitigation and health in urban areas, when health is the main driver for improvements. The paper aims to understand how systems of urban governance can enable or prevent the creation of health outcomes via continuous improvements in the environmental conditions in a city. The research draws on cases from two Indian cities where initiatives were undertaken in different sectors: Surat (waste) and Delhi (transportation). Using the literature on network effectiveness as an analytical framework, the paper compares the cases to identify the possible ways to strengthen the governance and policy making process in the urban system so that each intervention can intentionally realize multiple impacts for both local health and climate change mitigation in the long term as well as factors that may pose a threat to long-term progress and revert back to the previous situation after initial achievements.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:97

Enthalten in:

Environment international - 97(2016) vom: 01. Dez., Seite 146-154

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Puppim de Oliveira, Jose A [VerfasserIn]
Doll, Christopher N H [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Co-benefits
Governance
India
Journal Article
Networks
Resilience
Transport
Urban health
Waste

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Date Completed 30.11.2017

Date Revised 18.03.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.envint.2016.08.020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM264664841