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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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Planning for Health: Promising Practices for Healthy Built Environments in Ontario’s Public Health Units

This report acts as both a toolkit as well as a compilation of evidence that display how the promising practices of public health units’ role in community design process have led to the achivement of better health outcomes. The paper demonstrates the relationship between the built environment’s impacts on health and how public health units

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International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning: Report 2018-2020 – Implementing the International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning 2018-2020

Although this document provides a broad guidelline on urban territorial planning, the report also contains a chapter on the importance of health integration as part of urban planning. The authors explicitly delineate how the health is collated within the guideline and also provide the readers a case-study of a participatory approach to building a coalition

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