Cities, Climate Change, and Public Health: Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level

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An examination of climate adaptation planning that situates people's health and well-being front and centre.

To date, climate adaptation has mostly focused on protecting physical assets from potentially catastrophic climatic changes. While the lack of human vulnerability and equity components in adaptation plans and policies has been critiqued by many, this has not yet led to climate adaptation planning and policymaking processes that situates people's health and well-being front and centre.

This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people's understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. In addition, it aims to strengthen our understanding of different tools cities can use to operationalise a focus on the health implications of climate change, enhance collective decision-making capacities, and, ultimately, build human resilience to climate change.

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Ella Jisun Kim's book "Cities, climate change, and public health: Building human resilience to climate change at the local level" in eight concise chapters presents the theoretical background to the "frames and games" project and shows how the application of serious games can accelerate individual and collective learning to advance readiness in climate adaptation.

The author points out the advantages and disadvantages in both game formats (a series of face-to-face role play and one online digital game) and formulates a series of policy recommendations to guide local policymakers and stakeholders in the implementation of multimodal game-based engagement in climate adaptation planning and policymaking.

In sum, the book demonstrates how serious games can be used as a knowledge brokerage tool, facilitating social learning, and integrating different knowledge systems-scientific, technical, local-in planning and policymaking processes. -Journal of Urban Affairs

Author Bio

Dr. Ella Jisun Kim is at the World Bank, where she specializes in climate change and disaster risk management. She obtained her Ph.D. in environmental planning and public policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2018.