Urban Health and Wellbeing: Indian Case Studies
暫譯: 城市健康與福祉：印度案例研究

Grover, Aakriti, Singh, R. B.

Urban Health and Wellbeing: Indian Case Studies
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2019-11-12
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9811366705
  • ISBN-13: 9789811366703

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This book focuses on interdisciplinary issues of human health in the changing urban environments of India's largest megacities - Delhi and Mumbai. The authors explore human health concerns related to increased temperatures and air pollution in these cities in a study based on primary data collected through interviews, as well as secondary data on causes of mortality from 2001 to 2012. During this period, the surface temperatures for both megacities were mapped using Landsat Images.

The rapidly increasing populations of cities and urban centers alter ecosystem services such as water, air and land cover, with disastrous impacts on health and wellbeing, particularly in megacities. In 2015, polluted air was estimated to have been responsible for 6.4 million deaths worldwide, and it is projected that it will cause between 6 and 9 million deaths per year by 2060. In 2017, outdoor air pollution resulted in 1.2 million deaths in India and brought about a 3% loss in GDP. The increase in population, vehicles, and industries has led to changes in land use and land cover and a rise in city temperatures and air pollution, creating urban heat islands (UHIs). Together, UHIs and air pollution have damaging impacts on human health that range from stress and headache to asthma, bronchitis, and chronic diseases, and even to death.

Delhi has been experiencing emergency conditions in terms of environmental health over the past two years. At the same time, both the Delhi and Mumbai urban agglomerations are growing at a rapid pace, and the United Nations has projected that they will be the second and third most populous cities in the world by 2025. In this context, the book offers significant insights into the past patterns and responses to the present global urban health emergencies, and explores sustainable means of combating the problem to enable college and university researchers to develop innovative solutions. Further. It presents trans-disciplinary research that cuts across the WHO Action Plan, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Habitat III to help policymakers gain a better understanding of the global challenges of urban health and wellbeing. The book is especially useful for students and researchers in geography, urban demography, urban studies, environmental studies, health sciences, and policy studies.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書專注於印度最大都市—德里和孟買—在變化中的城市環境下的人類健康跨學科議題。作者探討了與這些城市中氣溫上升和空氣污染相關的人類健康問題，研究基於通過訪談收集的原始數據，以及2001年至2012年期間的死亡原因的次級數據。在此期間，利用Landsat影像對這兩個大都市的地表溫度進行了繪製。

城市和都市中心迅速增加的人口改變了水、空氣和土地覆蓋等生態系統服務，對健康和福祉造成了災難性的影響，特別是在大城市中。根據估計，2015年，污染空氣導致全球640萬人死亡，預計到2060年每年將造成600萬到900萬人死亡。2017年，戶外空氣污染在印度造成了120萬人死亡，並導致GDP損失3%。人口、車輛和工業的增加導致土地使用和土地覆蓋的變化，以及城市氣溫和空氣污染的上升，形成了城市熱島（UHI）。UHI和空氣污染對人類健康造成的損害範圍從壓力和頭痛到哮喘、支氣管炎、慢性疾病，甚至死亡。

在過去兩年中，德里在環境健康方面經歷了緊急狀況。與此同時，德里和孟買的城市聚集區正在快速增長，聯合國預測到2025年它們將成為世界上第二和第三人口最多的城市。在這種背景下，這本書提供了對過去模式和當前全球城市健康緊急情況的反應的重要見解，並探討了可持續的解決問題的方法，以使大學和學院的研究人員能夠開發創新的解決方案。此外，它呈現了跨學科的研究，涵蓋了世界衛生組織行動計劃、可持續發展目標、仙台減災框架和Habitat III，以幫助政策制定者更好地理解城市健康和福祉的全球挑戰。這本書對地理學、城市人口學、城市研究、環境研究、健康科學和政策研究的學生和研究人員特別有用。

作者簡介

Dr. Aakriti Grover is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, School of Earth Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India. She specializes in urban environment, urban health, and disaster management and is a World Social Science Fellow. She has published nine research papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed three chapters to edited books, including a policy brief for the Global Sustainable Development Report by the United Nations.

Dr. R.B.Singh is first Indian and second Asian elected as the Secretary General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (2018-22). He has been a Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, since 1996. He is also coordinator of Departmental Research Support for the University Grants Commission's Special Assistance Programme (UGC-SAP-DRS III), and specializes in land use, environmental studies, climate change, urban and regional development, disaster management, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. Dr. Singh is currently chair of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore (India), and a member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) and the prestigious scientific committee Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach. Since 2012, Dr. Singh has been the vice-president of the International Geographical Union (IGU), the world's leading geographical body, and was reelected for a second consecutive term (2016-2020).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Aakriti Grover 博士是印度泰米爾納德邦中央大學地理系的助理教授。她專注於城市環境、城市健康和災害管理，並且是世界社會科學研究員。她在同行評審的期刊上發表了九篇研究論文，並為編輯書籍貢獻了三個章節，包括為聯合國全球可持續發展報告撰寫的政策簡報。

R.B. Singh 博士是第一位印度人和第二位亞洲人當選國際地理聯合會（International Geographical Union, IGU）秘書長和財務主管（2018-2022）。自1996年以來，他一直擔任德里經濟學院地理系的地理學教授。他也是大學補助委員會特殊援助計劃（UGC-SAP-DRS III）的系研究支持協調員，專長於土地利用、環境研究、氣候變遷、城市與區域發展、災害管理、遙感技術和地理資訊系統。Singh 博士目前是印度邁索爾中央食品技術研究所（CSIR - Central Food Technological Research Institute）的科學與工業研究委員會主席，並且是國際科學理事會（ICSU）及其著名科學委員會「健康與福祉在變化的城市環境中的系統分析方法」的成員。自2012年以來，Singh 博士一直擔任國際地理聯合會（IGU）的副會長，這是全球領先的地理機構，並於2016年至2020年連任第二個任期。

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