Governance and networks for health co-benefits of climate change mitigation: Lessons from two Indian cities.
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.
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) and Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Brazil; Instituto COPPEAD de Administração, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), Fudan University, China; United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: japo3@yahoo.com.
Jose A
JA
Puppim de Oliveira
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan.
Christopher N H
CN
Doll
D002947:Cities; D057231:Climate Change; D004777:Environment; D004782:Environmental Health; D006076:Government; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011634:Public Health; D012106:Research; D014504:Urban Health
Co-benefits; Governance; India; Networks; Resilience; Transport; Urban health; Waste