Newsletter article
Translating urban loveability into action in a post-COVID-19 world
World Urban Campaign, Vol.15 April 2020
2020
Abstract
Cumulatively the COVID-19 pandemic, social justice issues, climate emergency and the extreme biodiversity loss create an unprecedented opportunity in human history to critically reflect on the state of health and wellbeing. It has become now evident that the impact of the environment affects all of us individually, on community level as well as on societal level on a profound level, which can indeed promote or inhibit mental and physical health (Dannenberg et al., 2011). In accordance to the World Health Organisation health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organisation, 1948). The environment can be defined holistically as the result of external (or nongenetic) factors including physical, nutritional, social, behavioural and others that act on humans and the built environment is produced of (Dannenberg et al., 2011). Therefore, it is important to recognise that on every level our health and wellbeing is profoundly impacted by the environment.
Details
- Title
- Translating urban loveability into action in a post-COVID-19 world
- Authors
- Gregor Mews (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- World Urban Campaign, Vol.15 April 2020
- Publisher
- Urban Synergies
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99625540202621
- Output Type
- Newsletter article
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