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HIA
Health Impact Assessment
HPHP
Healthy Parks Healthy People initiative
IPBES
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IUCN
International Union for Conservation of Nature
IVM
Integrated vector management
KAS
Knowledge-action systems
LCP
GIS-based least-cost path model
MAES
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services
MEA
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
NBS
Nature-based solutions
NCD
Noncommunicable disease
NDVI
Normalized difference vegetation index
NEOH
Network for Evaluation of One Health
NESTA
UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
NICA
US National Interfaith Coalition on Aging
NPPF
UK National Planning Policy Framework
OH
One Health
PES
Payment for ecosystem services
RCT
Randomized controlled trial
SBSTTA
CBD’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological
Advice
SDG
UN Sustainable Development Goal
SEA
Strategic Environmental Assessment
SES
Socio-economic status
SIT
Sterile insect technique
SRT
Stress Reduction Theory
TEEB
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
TWG
Thematic Working Group
UGS
Urban green space
UHI
Urban heat island
UN
United Nations
UNEP
United Nations Environment Program
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
VBDs
Vector-borne diseases
WHO
World Health Organization
Abbreviations