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The Built Environment: Understanding how physical environments influence the health and well-being of First Nations peoples living on-reserve

This study provides an overview of the role played by Indigenous design knowledge in community planning. In addition, the paper explores and compiles what is known about the built environment influences the health and well-being of First Nations reserve communities. Through five areas—housing, water and waste management, food security, active living, and transportation—this paper examines […]

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RICH Food, Smart City: How Building Reliable, Inclusive, Competitive, and Healthy Food Systems is Smart Policy for Urban Asia

Rich Food, Smart City provides new insights into the status of urban food policy and governance across Asian cities of all sizes and offers concrete illustrations of the many policies and programs that Asia’s cities can learn from and implement to improve food system outcomes. It argues that to effectively mitigate food-related risks and climate

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Primer for Cool Cities: Reducing Excessive Urban Heat—With a Focus on Passive Measures

Cities are getting hotter as a result of growing urbanization and global climate change. The negative impacts of temperature increases are significant and touch nearly every aspect of urban life. Protecting populations from extreme heat is one of the key resiliency and sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century. Successfully implementing measures to cool cities will

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Personal interventions and risk communication on air pollution

WHO convened an expert consultation of an extended group of experts from various regions and from governments, nongovernmental organizations and academia. This report summarizes the results of the expert consultation. The objectives of the consultation were to find consensus on the best ways to communicate potential risks related to air pollution to various audiences, including

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