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    Human Health and Climate Change: Leverage Points for Adaptation in Urban Environments

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    Authors
    Proust, Katrina
    Newell, B.
    Brown, Helen
    Capon, A.
    Browne, C.
    Burton, A.
    Dixon, J.
    Mu, L.
    Zarafu, M.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Proust, Katrina and Newell, Barry and Brown, Helen and Capon, Anthony and Browne, Chris and Burton, Anthony and Dixon, Jane and Mu, Lisa and Zarafu, Monica. 2012. Human Health and Climate Change: Leverage Points for Adaptation in Urban Environments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 9 (6): pp. 2134-2158.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    DOI
    10.3390/ijerph9062134
    ISSN
    16604601
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    © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37884
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The design of adaptation strategies that promote urban health and well-being in the face of climate change requires an understanding of the feedback interactions that take place between the dynamical state of a city, the health of its people, and the state of the planet. Complexity, contingency and uncertainty combine to impede the growth of such systemic understandings. In this paper we suggest that the collaborative development of conceptual models can help a group to identify potential leverage points for effective adaptation. We describe a three-step procedure that leads from the development of a high-level system template, through the selection of a problem space that contains one or more of the group’s adaptive challenges, to a specific conceptual model of a sub-system of importance to the group. This procedure is illustrated by a case study of urban dwellers’ maladaptive dependence on private motor vehicles. We conclude that a system dynamics approach, revolving around the collaborative construction of a set of conceptual models, can help communities to improve their adaptive capacity, and so better meet the challenge of maintaining, and even improving, urban health in the face of climate change.

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