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Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- COVID-19, Cities and Health: A View from New York -- 1 Key Messages -- Current and Future Human Exposure to High Atmospheric Temperatures in the Algarve, Portugal: Impacts and Policy Recommendations -- 1 Key Messages -- 2 Human Health and High Atmospheric Temperatures -- 3 Current and Projected Human Health Impact of Hot Days in the Algarve -- 4 Policy Recommendations -- References -- Neuroscience-Based Urban Design for Mentally Healthy Cities -- 1 Key Messages -- 2 Background -- 3 Findings -- 4 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Reference -- The Role of Money for a Healthy Economy -- 1 Key Messages -- 2 Background: The World Is on a Collision Course -- 3 Insights and Findings -- 3.1 Money Is Like the Blood of the Economy -- 3.2 Our Monetary System Obligates to Grow -- 3.3 Our Monetary System Produces Income Inequality -- 4 Policy Recommendation: Gesell's Solution -- References -- Developing Health-Promoting Schools: An Initiative in Government Schools of Indore City, India -- 1 Key Messages -- 2 Background -- 3 Findings -- 3.1 Training of Teachers as Health Ambassadors -- 3.2 Promoting Healthy School Environment -- 3.3 Multisector Collaboration and Convergence -- 4 Policy Recommendations -- References -- Mobility and COVID-19: Time for a Mobility Paradigm Shift -- 1 Key Messages -- 2 Overview -- 3 What Are the Main Mobility-Related Health Impacts Related to COVID-19? -- 3.1 Air Pollution -- 3.2 Noise -- 3.3 Physical Activity -- 4 How Can Mobility Contribute to COVID-19 Management and Beyond? -- 4.1 Reallocate Public Space to Prioritize Active and Local Mobility Whenever Possible -- 4.2 Make Public Transport as Safe as Possible -- 4.3 Promotion of the Rational Use of Private Transport, Taxis and Shared Vehicle Services -- 4.4 Use Technology to Manage and Programme Mobility -- 4.5 Change Working and Shopping Habits.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Well-being Has Come of Age in China -- 1 Ecological Civilization -- 2 Circular Economy -- 3 Healthy China 2030 -- 4 Case Studies -- 5 Policy Recommendations -- Reference -- A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Well-being Has Come of Age in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 1 Policy Context -- 2 The SCHEMA Project -- 3 Policy Recommendations -- References -- A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Well-being Has Come of Age in Latin America and the Caribbean -- References -- A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Well-being Has Come of Age in Africa -- Reference -- Facilitating the Governance of Urban Sustainability and Resilience Transitions with Knowledge-Action Systems Analysis -- 1 Wicked Urban Resilience Challenges -- 2 Illustration of the KASA Approach: Urban Land Sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico -- 3 Future Directions for KASA -- References -- Advancing Urban Health and Wellbeing Through Collective and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach 3.0 -- 1 Challenges of Urban Health and Wellbeing -- 2 Collective and Artificial Intelligence -- 3 Evolution of the System Approach -- 4 A Callforaction: SA 3.0 and the Urban Brain -- References -- The Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) Project: Learning from Latin America's Cities for a Healthier Future -- References -- Antimicrobial Resistance is a Health Risk in Chinese Cities-Now it Has Been Mapped -- References -- Financing and Implementing Resilience with a Systems Approach in Beirut -- 1 Urbanisation Context of Beirut -- 2 April 2017 Seminar -- 3 October 2017 Workshop -- 4 Finding 1: Building Resilience by Applying a Systems Approach -- 5 Proposed Architecture for Harnessing Complexity and Building Resilience -- 6 Finding 2: Resilience Brokers Programme-a Collaborative Model for Healthy and Resilient City-Regions.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction to ICSU, UNU, IAP and IUE -- 1 Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment -- 1 Background -- 2 Introduction: Urban Transformations and Health -- 3 Context and Relevance: Why Cities and Why Urban Health? -- 3.1 Urbanisation, Urban Density and Complexity -- 3.2 Governing Urban Complexity for Health and Wellbeing -- 4 Policy Relevance and Decision Making -- 5 A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Wellbeing -- 5.1 Why a Systems Approach Is Needed -- 5.2 What Is a Systems Approach to Urban Health and Wellbeing? -- 6 Implementing the Systems Approach: A Conceptual Framework -- 7 Vision and Goals of a Science Programme on a Systems Approach to Urban Health and Wellbeing -- 8 Guiding Principles and Thematic Areas -- 9 The Kind of City People Want -- References -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- Index

Environment, general; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Economics; Social Policy

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Innovation for Marginalized Smallholder Farmers and Development: An Overview and Implications for Policy and Resear... -- Introduction -- Defining Small Farms Comprehensively -- Determinants of ``Smallness´´ of Farms -- Patterns and Change of Small Farms -- Size and Productivity -- Persisting Rural Poverty and Untapped Potential -- Innovation Strategies for the Rural Poor -- Overview: Innovative Intensification and Diversification for and with Marginalized Small Farmers -- Conclusions and Implications for Policy and Research -- References -- Part I: Innovation for the Rural Poor: Theory, Trends and Impacts -- Chapter 2: Institutional and Technological Innovations in Polycentric Systems: Pathways for Escaping Marginality -- Innovation in Polycentric Systems -- Marginality in Polycentric Systems -- Pathways Out of Marginality: Institutional and Technological Innovations -- Enabling and Inhibiting Functions of Institutions -- Horizontal and Vertical Value Creating Institutions in Polycentric Order -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Innovations for Food and Nutrition Security: Impacts and Trends -- Introduction -- Current FNS Situation -- The Main Features of Technological and Institutional Innovations for FNS -- The Impacts of Innovations -- The Impact of New Platform Technology -- ICT -- Biofortification -- The Impact of Traditional Technology Through the Home Garden -- Future Trends and Priorities of FNS Innovation: A Stakeholder Survey -- General FNS Awareness -- Agricultural Innovations and FNS -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4: Psychology of Innovation: Innovating Human Psychology? -- Creative Process, Marginality and the Need to Innovate/Renovate -- Innovation as the `Lava´ from the Fount of Creativity: Few Behavioral Characteristics.

Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Geography, general; Innovation/Technology Management

This volume presents new insights on marginality, i.e. the situation of people living on the edge of socio-economic and ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by about 50 percent in the past two decades, any further reduction of poverty will be more difficult, because of high diversity of extremely poor people, and complex interrelations between poverty, exclusion and ecology. The marginality concept provides guidance to address this issue. Marginality entails addressing the structural forces of poverty, such as exclusion, discrimination and ecological degradations which lead to vulnerability of the poor. In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to address marginality. The inter-disciplinary research offers conceptual innovations and presents the dimensions of marginality in developing countries. Economic, political, and environmental drivers are assessed and mapped globally and in detail for countries in Africa and Asia, especially Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia. Economic growth especially in rural areas remains and farming communities is central to poverty reduction but needs to be complemented with specific actions to reach those at the margins. The social policy actions and measures to end exclusions are highlighted, and the roles of the state, local government, business and community in them are pointed out for overcoming marginality.

This volume presents new insights on marginality, i.e. the situation of people living on the edge of socio-economic and ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by about 50 percent in the past two decades, any further reduction of poverty will be more difficult, because of high diversity of extremely poor people, and complex interrelations between poverty, exclusion and ecology. The marginality concept provides guidance to address this issue. Marginality entails addressing the structural forces of poverty, such as exclusion, discrimination and ecological degradations which lead to vulnerability of the poor. In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to address marginality. The inter-disciplinary research offers conceptual innovations and presents the dimensions of marginality in developing countries. Economic, political, and environmental drivers are assessed and mapped globally and in detail for countries in Africa and Asia, especially Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia. Economic growth especially in rural areas remains and farming communities is central to poverty reduction but needs to be complemented with specific actions to reach those at the margins. The social policy actions and measures to end exclusions are highlighted, and the roles of the state, local government, business and community in them are pointed out for overcoming marginality.

Les pauvres en milieu rural diffèrent largement en ce qui concerne leurs capacités et le potentiel agro-écologique des zones où ils vivent. Ainsi, l'intensification durable ne constitue pas seulement un autre problème d'optimisation pour assurer une productivité plus élevée avec moins d'impact sur l'environnement. Il s'agit plutôt d'une tâche complexe de création de valeur par l'innovation dans les systèmes institutionnels, organisationnels et technologiques des sociétés. Il est important de noter que l'intensification durable n'est pas un défi à relever seulement par le secteur agricole, mais par la société dans son ensemble. Les stratégies pertinentes peuvent aller de l'augmentation de la récolte ou de la diversité par zone à l'augmentation des possibilités de revenus en dehors de l'agriculture.