IQRA UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD
Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda
Term Paper
5/24/2016
Submitted to: Dr Baber
Submitted by: Ramish Chohan-23375
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 1
PROBLEM STATEMENT 1
SITUTAIONAL ANLYSIS 1
CHALLENGES 2
LITERATURE RIVEW- IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CITIES 2
SOLUTION 3
GREENING THE CITIES ECONOMY 3
BUILDING 4
WASTE 4
RETHINKING GOVERNANCE 4
REFERENCES 6
INTRODUCTION
Climate change is affecting towns and their residents, mainly the bad, and more severe influences are expected as weather extremes and variability growth. cities are frequently already overwhelmed via the quantity and complexity of services they want to offer. adding weather change mitigation and edition to the alternative demanding situations dealing with cities is an massive burden; and on the identical time towns ought to accommodate every other three million new citizens every week. PROBLEM STATEMENT: Why climate change is an urgent problem for cities? SITUTAIONAL ANLYSIS Climate change is bringing new challenges for public health in urban settings. As a multiplier of health risks, a wide range of health impacts from climate change are expected. These impacts are likely to be highly inequitable, affecting chiefly the most vulnerable people in the poorest and least prepared countries. From injuries and noncommunicable conditions to food-borne, waterborne and vector-borne infectious diseases, local health systems in cities will have to cope with and adapt to additional needs brought about by changing climate patterns and increasing average temperatures. Our work WKC’s work in this area is fully aligned with the WHO work plan on climate change and health, endorsed in 2009 by the World Health Assembly and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. The work plan encompasses advocacy, partnerships, science and evidence, and health systems strengthening. Our work focuses on urban health vulnerability assessment and adaptation to climate change, mainly through relevant research and policy advice.The generation of retrospective and prospective evidence of urban linkages between climate and health is a fundamental step towards an effective and equitable adaptation of cities to climate change impacts. Urban linkages between climate and health The causal pathways between climate variability and human health are often poorly understood. Commonly, the linkages between climate and disease are studied at scales that are not locally relevant, leaving urban health systems with a poor basis of evidence to undertake needs assessments and planning for climate-sensitive health outcomes. The idea is to generate city-based scientific evidence on the links between climate change and health, assess local vulnerability to climate impacts and contribute to making urban settings prepared for and resilient to climate-induced risks – diseases, emergencies and disasters. Climate change and adaptation vulnerability assessment …show more content…
Such infrastructure as bridges, subway structures, homes, and roads, the historic sense of region, and rootedness of citizens are crucial attributes of cites. these strengths of vicinity can, however, grow to be liabilities if the nearby ecosystems that they are based on are unable to evolve to the weather-caused modifications. weather trade poses extreme threats to city infrastructure, excellent of lifestyles, and whole urban structures. now not best negative countries, however additionally rich ones will an increasing number of be tormented by anomalous climate activities and traits (international bank …show more content…
The institutional framework for a extra sustainable improvement is intrinsically linked to the manner cities operate and “suppose”. The massive awareness of choices with a large scale and far accomplishing impacts puts cities in the middle of the discussions approximately sustainable development. expertise how the city economy and politics function and how the metropolis is attached to a larger global (local, country wide, global) is fundamental to expertise how to create institutional mechanisms to transport the arena in the direction of a inexperienced economic system. The growing length and significance of cities across the globe make it arguably the unmarried most critical entity to foster the green economy. towns are frequently a higher spatial unit by means of which to conceive of such sports given the numerous nature of cities in view that their control may be more aware of pressing issues and free from competing countrywide pursuits. across the range of development we see that cities are playing an increasingly important function inside the implementation of environmental regulations regarding global troubles inclusive of weather alternate and biodiversity loss. The inexperienced economic system offers another platform for formidable cities to promote their inexperienced
Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda
Term Paper
5/24/2016
Submitted to: Dr Baber
Submitted by: Ramish Chohan-23375
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 1
PROBLEM STATEMENT 1
SITUTAIONAL ANLYSIS 1
CHALLENGES 2
LITERATURE RIVEW- IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CITIES 2
SOLUTION 3
GREENING THE CITIES ECONOMY 3
BUILDING 4
WASTE 4
RETHINKING GOVERNANCE 4
REFERENCES 6
INTRODUCTION
Climate change is affecting towns and their residents, mainly the bad, and more severe influences are expected as weather extremes and variability growth. cities are frequently already overwhelmed via the quantity and complexity of services they want to offer. adding weather change mitigation and edition to the alternative demanding situations dealing with cities is an massive burden; and on the identical time towns ought to accommodate every other three million new citizens every week. PROBLEM STATEMENT: Why climate change is an urgent problem for cities? SITUTAIONAL ANLYSIS Climate change is bringing new challenges for public health in urban settings. As a multiplier of health risks, a wide range of health impacts from climate change are expected. These impacts are likely to be highly inequitable, affecting chiefly the most vulnerable people in the poorest and least prepared countries. From injuries and noncommunicable conditions to food-borne, waterborne and vector-borne infectious diseases, local health systems in cities will have to cope with and adapt to additional needs brought about by changing climate patterns and increasing average temperatures. Our work WKC’s work in this area is fully aligned with the WHO work plan on climate change and health, endorsed in 2009 by the World Health Assembly and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. The work plan encompasses advocacy, partnerships, science and evidence, and health systems strengthening. Our work focuses on urban health vulnerability assessment and adaptation to climate change, mainly through relevant research and policy advice.The generation of retrospective and prospective evidence of urban linkages between climate and health is a fundamental step towards an effective and equitable adaptation of cities to climate change impacts. Urban linkages between climate and health The causal pathways between climate variability and human health are often poorly understood. Commonly, the linkages between climate and disease are studied at scales that are not locally relevant, leaving urban health systems with a poor basis of evidence to undertake needs assessments and planning for climate-sensitive health outcomes. The idea is to generate city-based scientific evidence on the links between climate change and health, assess local vulnerability to climate impacts and contribute to making urban settings prepared for and resilient to climate-induced risks – diseases, emergencies and disasters. Climate change and adaptation vulnerability assessment …show more content…
Such infrastructure as bridges, subway structures, homes, and roads, the historic sense of region, and rootedness of citizens are crucial attributes of cites. these strengths of vicinity can, however, grow to be liabilities if the nearby ecosystems that they are based on are unable to evolve to the weather-caused modifications. weather trade poses extreme threats to city infrastructure, excellent of lifestyles, and whole urban structures. now not best negative countries, however additionally rich ones will an increasing number of be tormented by anomalous climate activities and traits (international bank …show more content…
The institutional framework for a extra sustainable improvement is intrinsically linked to the manner cities operate and “suppose”. The massive awareness of choices with a large scale and far accomplishing impacts puts cities in the middle of the discussions approximately sustainable development. expertise how the city economy and politics function and how the metropolis is attached to a larger global (local, country wide, global) is fundamental to expertise how to create institutional mechanisms to transport the arena in the direction of a inexperienced economic system. The growing length and significance of cities across the globe make it arguably the unmarried most critical entity to foster the green economy. towns are frequently a higher spatial unit by means of which to conceive of such sports given the numerous nature of cities in view that their control may be more aware of pressing issues and free from competing countrywide pursuits. across the range of development we see that cities are playing an increasingly important function inside the implementation of environmental regulations regarding global troubles inclusive of weather alternate and biodiversity loss. The inexperienced economic system offers another platform for formidable cities to promote their inexperienced