Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: Implementing a Systems Approach

This volume addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).

The unique feature of this book is its 'systems approach' to urban health and wellbeing: solution-oriented for science and society and not purely theoretical, it can be applied in the context of decision-making, and has the potential to unlock cities' unused potential by promoting health and wellbeing.

Furthermore, the inter- and transdisciplinary urban issues addressed are examined from a cross-sectoral perspective.