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Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health
WebThe Healthy Cities Report aims to provide policymakers and development practitioners with an action-oriented framework for achieving healthy cities. Informed by an extensive literature review, it draws on the wealth of World Bank experience in urban development, citing examples and case studies of healthy city successes and challenges …
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Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment GPSC
WebBiodiversity underpins urban ecosystem functions that are essential for human health and well-being. Understanding how biodiversity relates to human health is a developing frontier for science, policy and practice. This article describes the beneficial, as well as harmful, aspects of biodiversity to human health in urban environments. Recent …
Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers : An Initial
WebThe global sanitation workforce bridges the gap between sanitation infrastructure and the provision of sanitation services. Sanitation workers provide an essential public service but often at the cost of their dignity, safety, health, and living conditions. They are some of the most vulnerable workers. They are far too often invisible, unquantified, and ostracized, …
Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Waste
WebThe Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Guidelines are technical reference documents with general and industryspecific examples of Good International Industry Practice (GIIP)1. When one or more members of the World Bank Group are involved in a project, these EHS Guidelines are applied as required by their respective …
C40 Action Selection and Prioritisation (ASAP) Tool and resources
WebThe aim of the C40 Action Selection and Prioritisation (ASAP) resources is to support cities in selecting and prioritising actions to include in their ambitious climate action plans. The Action Selection phase of the climate action planning process aims to support cities with the identification and prioritisation of key actions for reducing emissions and …
The benefits of citizen science and nature-noticing activities
WebThe current biodiversity crisis, extinction of experience of nature and rising concern about people's well-being and mental health require us to understand the benefits of activities supporting people's engagement with nature. We ran a 1-week randomised controlled experiment to test the impact of nature-focussed activities on people's connectedness to …
Health-Oriented Micro-Generation in Shanghai GPSC
WebThe pursuit of health and wellbeing is crucial for human society, and has been listed as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals-SDG 3. Evidence has shown that conditions in the urban built environment have significant impacts on public health, with varying effects on communicable, non-communicable and psychological diseases. …
What can we learn from Singapore to reshape the future of
Web1. A holistic sustainable approach and a human-centered development strategy. Ang Mo Kio is a large neighborhood in Singapore where 145,000 residents live in public housing. Walking through the Ang Mo Kio neighborhood, I was impressed by the government’s efforts to create vibrant and recreational green space for local communities.
Cool solutions for a hotter climate: Tackling urban heat island …
WebCities worldwide are grappling with the adverse effects of Urban Heat Island (UHI)[1], intensified by rising global temperatures from climate change. The consequences of the UHI effect extend far beyond discomfort, with profound health and economic implications for cities and their residents. Low-income neighborhoods, communities …
Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: A
WebHuman activities create waste, and the ways that waste is handled, stored, collected, and disposed of can pose risks to the environment and to public health. Solid waste management (SWM) includes all activities that seek to minimize health, environmental, and aesthetic impacts of solid waste. In urban areas, especially in the …
Influence of COVID-19 on China’s Urban Planning and Design …
WebCities globally have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has sparked a discussion about how cities are designed to make them better equipped to resist the spread of disease and reshape urban planning to adapt to risks in health crises. History shows that infectious diseases have been hugely influential in shaping cities. …
Addressing Urban Heat in Metro Manila Cities: Urban Heat in …
WebLearning Goals Addressing UH in Metro Manila Cities: Urban Heat in the Philippine Context-Baselining (research, data collection, etc.)-Modelling and Scenario building-Framework development and Policy Integration-Planning (design, strategies, and guidelines/standards)-Communication Plan (Public Consultation/Bilateral Meetings with concerned stakeholders)
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