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The built environment, climate change and health

The built environment, climate change and health. Professor Anthony Capon National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU Healthy Built Environments Program, UNSW. WATERVIEW CONVENTION CENTRE BICENTENNAL PARK 1. ABS estimates. 2 | LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE.

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The built environment, climate change and health

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  1. The built environment, climate change and health • Professor Anthony Capon • National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU • Healthy Built Environments Program, UNSW WATERVIEW CONVENTION CENTRE BICENTENNAL PARK1

  2. ABS estimates 2| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  3. An urbanising landscape 3| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  4. Phases of concern about cities and health 19th Century – rapid urbanisation and epidemics of infections and respiratory disease Edwin Chadwick: Health of Towns movement Other phases of concern: Garden Cities Ebenezer Howard WHO Healthy Cities Leonard Duhl, Trevor Hancock 4| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  5. Contemporary urban health challenges • Sedentary way of life – transport, work, recreation • Obesity arises from an energy imbalance – too much in, too little out • Obesity and chronic disease are consequences of maladaptation to the ready availability (and low cost) of fossil fuel energy • Need integrative ways of understanding – somatic and extra-somatic energy flows in cities 5| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  6. 2006 AAS Fenner Conference Urbanism, Environment and Health 6| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

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  8. Boyden’s biosensitivity triangle 8| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  9. Co-benefits for health Lancet Series on Health and Climate Change • http://www.thelancet.com/series/health-and-climate-change • Low-carbon ways of living are healthy ways of living • Energy generation • Mobility • Food choices • Housing • 2010 AAS Fenner Conference • http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/226/paper/NB10032.htm 9| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  10. Healthy Built Environments ProgramUNSW Cities Futures Research CentreA/Prof Susan ThompsonNSW Health Department funding1. Education and workforce capacity2. Policy- and practice-relevant research3. Leadership and advocacy 10| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  11. http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2010/hud_checklist.html 11| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

  12. New bookAug 2011 12| LANDCOM 2011 SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE

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