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Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion
BACKGROUND: Climate change is one of the greatest threats to public health in this century. The UK is one of six countries that has enshrined in law a commitment to become net zero by 2050. However, there is a lack of guidance and structure for local government in the UK, which has responsibility fo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10557327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37798743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16853-8 |
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author | Dodd, Steven Butterfield, Scott Davies, Jessica Furbo, Mette Kragh Morris, Abigail Brown, Heather |
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description | BACKGROUND: Climate change is one of the greatest threats to public health in this century. The UK is one of six countries that has enshrined in law a commitment to become net zero by 2050. However, there is a lack of guidance and structure for local government in the UK, which has responsibility for public health, to reach this goal and help their communities mitigate and adapt to the health and health inequality impacts of climate change. This study aimed to identify common barriers and facilitators related to addressing the health and health inequality impacts of climate change in local governments. METHODS: Using Normalisation Process Theory, we developed a two-round survey for people working in local authorities to identify the barriers and facilitators to including the health and health inequality impact of climate change in their climate action plans. The survey was delivered online via Qualtrics software. In the first-round respondents were able to express their views on barriers and facilitators and in the second round they ranked common themes identified from the first round. Two hundred and fifty people working in local government were invited to take part and n = 28 (11.2%) completed the first round of the survey and n = 14 completed the second round. Thematic analysis was used in Round 1 to identify common themes and weighted rankings were used to assess key barriers and facilitators in Round 2. RESULTS: Key facilitators were the need to save money on energy, and successful partnership working already in place including across local government, with local communities and external stakeholders. Key barriers were insufficient staff, resources and lack of support from management/leaders, and lack of local evidence. CONCLUSION: To mitigate and adapt to the health impacts of climate change, local government must nurture a culture of innovation and collaboration to ensure that different departments work together This means not just working with external partners, but also collaborating and co-producing with communities to achieve health equity and mitigate the debilitating effect of climate change on public health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-16853-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-105573272023-10-07 Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion Dodd, Steven Butterfield, Scott Davies, Jessica Furbo, Mette Kragh Morris, Abigail Brown, Heather BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Climate change is one of the greatest threats to public health in this century. The UK is one of six countries that has enshrined in law a commitment to become net zero by 2050. However, there is a lack of guidance and structure for local government in the UK, which has responsibility for public health, to reach this goal and help their communities mitigate and adapt to the health and health inequality impacts of climate change. This study aimed to identify common barriers and facilitators related to addressing the health and health inequality impacts of climate change in local governments. METHODS: Using Normalisation Process Theory, we developed a two-round survey for people working in local authorities to identify the barriers and facilitators to including the health and health inequality impact of climate change in their climate action plans. The survey was delivered online via Qualtrics software. In the first-round respondents were able to express their views on barriers and facilitators and in the second round they ranked common themes identified from the first round. Two hundred and fifty people working in local government were invited to take part and n = 28 (11.2%) completed the first round of the survey and n = 14 completed the second round. Thematic analysis was used in Round 1 to identify common themes and weighted rankings were used to assess key barriers and facilitators in Round 2. RESULTS: Key facilitators were the need to save money on energy, and successful partnership working already in place including across local government, with local communities and external stakeholders. Key barriers were insufficient staff, resources and lack of support from management/leaders, and lack of local evidence. CONCLUSION: To mitigate and adapt to the health impacts of climate change, local government must nurture a culture of innovation and collaboration to ensure that different departments work together This means not just working with external partners, but also collaborating and co-producing with communities to achieve health equity and mitigate the debilitating effect of climate change on public health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-16853-8. BioMed Central 2023-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10557327/ /pubmed/37798743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16853-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Dodd, Steven Butterfield, Scott Davies, Jessica Furbo, Mette Kragh Morris, Abigail Brown, Heather Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
title | Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
title_full | Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
title_fullStr | Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
title_short | Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
title_sort | assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments: a two-round survey of expert opinion |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10557327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37798743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16853-8 |
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