The CUSSH programme: learning how to support cities’ transformational change towards health and sustainability [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
2021
The Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH)
project is a global research programme on the complex systemic
connections between urban development and health. Through
transdisciplinary methods it will develop critical evidence on how to
achieve the far-reaching transformation of cities needed to address
vital environmental imperatives for planetary health in the 21st
century. CUSSH’s core components include: (i) a review of evidence on
the effects of climate actions (both mitigation and adaptation) and
factors influencing their implementation in urban settings; (ii) the
development and application of methods for tracking the progress of
cities towards sustainability and health goals; (iii) the development
and application of models to assess the impact on population health,
health inequalities, socio-economic development and environmental parameters of urban development strategies, in order to support
policy decisions; (iv) iterative in-depth engagements with stakeholders
in partner cities in low-, middle- and high-income settings, using
systems-based participatory methods, to test and support the
implementation of the transformative changes needed to meet local
and global health and sustainability objectives; (v) a programme of
public engagement and capacity building. Through these steps, the
programme will provide transferable evidence on how to accelerate
actions essential to achieving population-level health and global
climate goals through, amongst others, changing cities’ energy
provision, transport infrastructure, green infrastructure, air quality,
waste management and housing.
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