Cargando…
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...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Elsevier
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.03.019 |
_version_ | 1782520627987480576 |
---|---|
author | Hiscock, Rosemary Asikainen, Arja Tuomisto, Jouni Jantunen, Matti Pärjälä, Erkki Sabel, Clive E. |
author_facet | Hiscock, Rosemary Asikainen, Arja Tuomisto, Jouni Jantunen, Matti Pärjälä, Erkki Sabel, Clive E. |
author_sort | Hiscock, Rosemary |
collection | PubMed |
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. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-5385580 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2017 |
publisher | Elsevier |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-53855802017-04-13 City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? Hiscock, Rosemary Asikainen, Arja Tuomisto, Jouni Jantunen, Matti Pärjälä, Erkki Sabel, Clive E. Prev Med Rep Regular Article 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. Elsevier 2017-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5385580/ /pubmed/28409088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.03.019 Text en © 2017 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Hiscock, Rosemary Asikainen, Arja Tuomisto, Jouni Jantunen, Matti Pärjälä, Erkki Sabel, Clive E. City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing? |
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 | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.03.019 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT hiscockrosemary cityscaleclimatechangepoliciesdotheymatterforwellbeing AT asikainenarja cityscaleclimatechangepoliciesdotheymatterforwellbeing AT tuomistojouni cityscaleclimatechangepoliciesdotheymatterforwellbeing AT jantunenmatti cityscaleclimatechangepoliciesdotheymatterforwellbeing AT parjalaerkki cityscaleclimatechangepoliciesdotheymatterforwellbeing AT sabelclivee cityscaleclimatechangepoliciesdotheymatterforwellbeing |