Sustainability in a changing world: integrating human health and wellbeing, urbanisation, and ecosystem services
Sustainability in a changing world: integrating human health and wellbeing, urbanisation, and ecosystem services
There is an urgent need to address interlinked sustainability issues in a world challenged by inequality, finite resources and unprecedented changes across Earth’s systems. As Future Earth Fellows, based on our collective expertise in a diverse range of sustainability issues, here we identify a specific need to recognise and respond appropriately to the nexus between human health and wellbeing, urbanisation, and ecosystem services (the ‘WUE nexus’). This nexus is a priority area for research, policy and practice. In particular, it provides a useful pathway to meet the challenges of successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this brief, we present the following policy recommendations:
1. By emphasising urban-rural linkages, foster an integrated approach to ensure food security, food safety, and health promotion;
2. Secure resilient livelihoods for all, in particular for vulnerable groups; and
3. Integrate co-production of knowledge in science for decision-making, including the co-design of implementation frameworks, and the adoption of a nexus approach.
scientific brief, nexus thinking, systems thinking, ecosystem services, wellbeing and human health, urbanisation, urban-rural linkages, sustainable food systems, livelihood resilience, co-production of knowledge
Division for Sustainable Development
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2016
Kusch, Sigrid
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Fleming, Aysha
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Vogt, Jess
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Lim, Michelle
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Evoh, Chijioke J.
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Hamel, Perrine
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Waterlander, Wilma
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Hughes, Alice C.
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Hoffenson, Steven
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