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authors maintain that such a systems perspective can lead to innovative designs of
new urban infrastructure and the redesign of existing structures, such as the use of
NBS to create resilience to climate change in cities in order to reduce negative
health impacts and well-being.
Reflecting on the policy opportunities and challenges for considering human
health in landscape planning projects, Stefan Heiland and co-authors highlight
the need for increased and improved collaboration between landscape architecture, urban planning and the health sector. Examining landscape planning instruments in both Germany and the UK, the authors show how human health and
biodiversity are currently considered in the design of urban green spaces through
green infrastructure and ecosystem services, recreation planning, and climate
change legislation. The authors conclude that health issues are implicitly touched
upon or, in rare cases, explicitly named in landscape planning legislation in the
UK and Germany. Consequently, the authors argue, opportunities for including
health issues into landscape planning are not frequently used, and suggest this
could be because health authorities are seldom involved in planning decisions.
They strongly argue that including environmental interventions for health in proactive planning may reduce other hidden costs for a range of sectors, while
greenspace and conservation planning cannot really go without health considerations anymore. The authors recommend legislation to overcome these disciplinary silos by requiring public health professionals to participate in urban landscape
planning decisions.
20.6 Recommendations for Research, Policy and Practice
A number of important conclusions can be drawn from the chapters presented in
this book. In this next section we identify 30 specific recommendations for research,
policy and practice. These suggestions arise from those presented by the authors of
this book, and incorporate recommendations debated by the European Network of
Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) interest group on climate change
at the European conference on ‘Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate
Change’ held on 27–29 June 2017 in Bonn, Germany (Marselle et al. 2018).
20.6.1 Recommendations and Challenges to Integrate
Biodiversity, Health and Climate Change in Research
Whilst there is increasing research activity to assess the linkages between biodiversity and health (Lindley et al. Chap. 2, Marselle et al. Chap. 9, Irvine et al. Chap. 10,
Cook et al. Chap. 11, this volume), the chapters in this book highlight the need to
expand the evidence base for the contributions of biodiversity to human health and
20 Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change: Perspectives for Science…
authors maintain that such a systems perspective can lead to innovative designs of
new urban infrastructure and the redesign of existing structures, such as the use of
NBS to create resilience to climate change in cities in order to reduce negative
health impacts and well-being.
Reflecting on the policy opportunities and challenges for considering human
health in landscape planning projects, Stefan Heiland and co-authors highlight
the need for increased and improved collaboration between landscape architecture, urban planning and the health sector. Examining landscape planning instruments in both Germany and the UK, the authors show how human health and
biodiversity are currently considered in the design of urban green spaces through
green infrastructure and ecosystem services, recreation planning, and climate
change legislation. The authors conclude that health issues are implicitly touched
upon or, in rare cases, explicitly named in landscape planning legislation in the
UK and Germany. Consequently, the authors argue, opportunities for including
health issues into landscape planning are not frequently used, and suggest this
could be because health authorities are seldom involved in planning decisions.
They strongly argue that including environmental interventions for health in proactive planning may reduce other hidden costs for a range of sectors, while
greenspace and conservation planning cannot really go without health considerations anymore. The authors recommend legislation to overcome these disciplinary silos by requiring public health professionals to participate in urban landscape
planning decisions.
20.6 Recommendations for Research, Policy and Practice
A number of important conclusions can be drawn from the chapters presented in
this book. In this next section we identify 30 specific recommendations for research,
policy and practice. These suggestions arise from those presented by the authors of
this book, and incorporate recommendations debated by the European Network of
Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) interest group on climate change
at the European conference on ‘Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate
Change’ held on 27–29 June 2017 in Bonn, Germany (Marselle et al. 2018).
20.6.1 Recommendations and Challenges to Integrate
Biodiversity, Health and Climate Change in Research
Whilst there is increasing research activity to assess the linkages between biodiversity and health (Lindley et al. Chap. 2, Marselle et al. Chap. 9, Irvine et al. Chap. 10,
Cook et al. Chap. 11, this volume), the chapters in this book highlight the need to
expand the evidence base for the contributions of biodiversity to human health and
20 Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change: Perspectives for Science…