Overview
- Examines the links between the social, economic and environmental determinants of health in relation to sustainable development goals
- Helps to define interdisciplinary approaches as strategies for sustainable development and health promotion in the 2030 Agenda
- Presents a truly comprehensive blend of perspectives, encouraging critical thinking and promoting new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and practices
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Urban Planning to Address Inequality in Health and Urban Poverty
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Healthy Cities and Healthy Environments
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Governance for Sustainable Development
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ulisses M Azeiteiro is a Senior Professor (Associate Professor with Habilitation and Tenure), Coordinator of the Climate Change and Biodiversity Assets Unit from the Biology Department and Integrated Member/Senior Researcher of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at University of Aveiro in Portugal. His main interests are the Impacts of Climate Change in the Marine Environment (Biology and Ecology of Global Change) and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development (Social and Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change). Research Coordinator since 2008 he was a member of several evaluation panels from research projects and grants (International, European and National—Portuguese and outside Portugal), member of the organizing and scientific committees of more than 100 international and national congresses, member of more than 150 exam panels for viva voice examinations (for Ph.D and MSc) and career assessment and supervised over50 postgraduate students (MSc and Ph.D students). Professor Ulisses M Azeiteiro has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 200 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals
Marco Akerman full-time Professor, School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Chair of the Working Group on Health Promotion and Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Association of Public Health. Former PAHO Regional Consultant on Local Development and Health and Focal Point on Social Determinants of Health. Dr. Marco Akerman focuses his consulting activities, teaching and research in the areas of evaluation of public policies, intersectoral and social determinants of health. In 2014, he led a review process of the National Health Promotion Policy in Brazil activating multiple simultaneous movements with intense social participation.
Walter Leal Filho is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.
Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti is a Ph.D Researcher at the Center for Studies, Research and Documentation of Healthy Cities at the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at University of Aveiro in Portugal. She has experience in Law, Environmental Education, Public Health, Public Management, especially in health promotion, sustainable development, strategic planning and management and the evaluation and monitoring of public policies.
Luciana Brandli Ph.D is an Associate Professor in the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil, working in the Ph.D Program in Engineering, Infrastructure and Environment. Her current research interests include sustainability in higher education and green campus, environment management, management of urban infrastructure, sustainable cities and green buildings. She supervises a number of Masters and doctoral students on engineering, environment and sustainability issues, and has in excess of 150 publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lifelong Learning and Education in Healthy and Sustainable Cities
Editors: U.M. Azeiteiro, M. AKERMAN, W. Leal Filho, A.F.F. Setti, L.L. Brandli
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69474-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69473-3Published: 18 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88784-5Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69474-0Published: 27 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 635
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Energy Security