City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing?
Climate change mitigation policies aim to reduce climate change through reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions whereas adaption policies seek to enable humans to live in a world with increasingly variable and more extreme climatic conditions. It is increasingly realised that enacting such policies...
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| author | Rosemary Hiscock Arja Asikainen Jouni Tuomisto Matti Jantunen Erkki Pärjälä Clive E. Sabel |
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| description | Climate change mitigation policies aim to reduce climate change through reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions whereas adaption policies seek to enable humans to live in a world with increasingly variable and more extreme climatic conditions. It is increasingly realised that enacting such policies will have unintended implications for public health, but there has been less focus on their implications for wellbeing. Wellbeing can be defined as a positive mental state which is influenced by living conditions. As part of URGENCHE, an EU funded project to identify health and wellbeing outcomes of city greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, a survey designed to measure these living conditions and levels of wellbeing in Kuopio, Finland was collected in December 2013. Kuopio was the northmost among seven cities in Europe and China studied. Generalised estimating equation modelling was used to determine which living conditions were associated with subjective wellbeing (measured through the WHO-5 Scale). Local greenspace and spending time in nature were associated with higher levels of wellbeing whereas cold housing and poor quality indoor air were associated with lower levels of wellbeing. Thus adaption policies to increase greenspace might, in addition to reducing heat island effects, have the co-benefit of increasing wellbeing and improving housing insulation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1411d2cccf44e98806cc9ad2e110d702022-12-22T03:45:31ZengElsevierPreventive Medicine Reports2211-33552017-06-016C26527010.1016/j.pmedr.2017.03.019City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing?Rosemary Hiscock0Arja Asikainen1Jouni Tuomisto2Matti Jantunen3Erkki Pärjälä4Clive E. Sabel5School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UKNational Institute for Health and Welfare, Neulaniementie 4, P.O. Box 95, FI-70701 Kuopio, FinlandNational Institute for Health and Welfare, Neulaniementie 4, P.O. Box 95, FI-70701 Kuopio, FinlandNational Institute for Health and Welfare, Neulaniementie 4, P.O. Box 95, FI-70701 Kuopio, FinlandEnvironmental Protection Services, City of Kuopio, Suokatu 42, P.O. Box 1097, FI-70111 Kuopio, FinlandDepartment of Environmental Science - Emission modeling & environmental geography, Frederiksborgvej 399, building 7420, K1.31, 4000 Roskilde, DenmarkClimate change mitigation policies aim to reduce climate change through reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions whereas adaption policies seek to enable humans to live in a world with increasingly variable and more extreme climatic conditions. It is increasingly realised that enacting such policies will have unintended implications for public health, but there has been less focus on their implications for wellbeing. Wellbeing can be defined as a positive mental state which is influenced by living conditions. As part of URGENCHE, an EU funded project to identify health and wellbeing outcomes of city greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, a survey designed to measure these living conditions and levels of wellbeing in Kuopio, Finland was collected in December 2013. Kuopio was the northmost among seven cities in Europe and China studied. Generalised estimating equation modelling was used to determine which living conditions were associated with subjective wellbeing (measured through the WHO-5 Scale). Local greenspace and spending time in nature were associated with higher levels of wellbeing whereas cold housing and poor quality indoor air were associated with lower levels of wellbeing. Thus adaption policies to increase greenspace might, in addition to reducing heat island effects, have the co-benefit of increasing wellbeing and improving housing insulation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133551730061XClimate changeWellbeingFinlandHousingGreenspaceResilience |
| spellingShingle | Rosemary Hiscock Arja Asikainen Jouni Tuomisto Matti Jantunen Erkki Pärjälä Clive E. Sabel City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? Preventive Medicine Reports Climate change Wellbeing Finland Housing Greenspace Resilience |
| title | City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? |
| title_full | City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? |
| title_fullStr | City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? |
| title_full_unstemmed | City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? |
| title_short | City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? |
| title_sort | city scale climate change policies do they matter for wellbeing |
| topic | Climate change Wellbeing Finland Housing Greenspace Resilience |
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