Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Resource Efficiency and Distribution: Healthy Environments for Healthy Cities

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series ((SDGS))

Abstract

The continuing climate change crises lead to resource scarcity issues, jeopardising global peacebuilding processes.

We talk, and we observe. That is what makes our world today.

—Ali Cheshmehzangi, 2018

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Adams CA, Abhayawansa S (2021) Connecting the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing and calls for ‘harmonisation’ of sustainability reporting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 102309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102309

  • Agbali M, Trillo C, Fernando TP, Arayici Y (2017) Creating smart and healthy cities by exploring the potentials of emerging technologies and social innovation for urban efficiency: lessons from the innovative city of Boston. Int J Energ Power Eng 11(5)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bajaj M, Chiu B (2009) Education for sustainable development as peace education. Peace Change 34(4):441–455

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brauch HG, Spring ÚO, Grin J, Scheffran J (eds) (2016) Handbook on sustainability transition and sustainable peace, vol 10. Springer, Cham

    Google Scholar 

  • Bretthauer JM (2015) Conditions for peace and conflict: applying a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to cases of resource scarcity. J Conflict Resolut 59(4):593–616

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brock L (1991) Peace through parks: the environment on the peace research agenda. J Peace Res 28(4):407–423

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buckles D (ed) (1999) Cultivating peace: conflict and collaboration in natural resource management. International development research centre (IDRC), Canada, world bank institute, international bank for reconstruction and development staff

    Google Scholar 

  • Cheshmehzangi A (2020a) Resilience first briefing—urban resilience around COVID-19: lessons from China, presented in ‘Resilience first briefing’, held in London, UK, pp 1–13

    Google Scholar 

  • Cheshmehzangi A (2020b) Introduction: the city during outbreak events. In: Cheshmehzangi A (ed) The city in need: urban resilience and city management in disruptive disease outbreak events. Singapore: Springer. pp 1–15

    Google Scholar 

  • Cheshmehzangi A (2020c) Housing and health evaluation related to general comfort and indoor thermal comfort satisfaction during the COVID-19 lockdown. J Hum Behav Soc Environ 31(1–4):184–209

    Google Scholar 

  • Cheshmehzangi A (2020d) The city in need: urban resilience and city management in disruptive disease outbreak events. Springer, Singapore

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Cheshmehzangi A, Dawodu A (2019) The review of sustainable development goals (sdgs): people, perspective and planning. In: Cheshmehzangi A, Dawodu A (eds) Sustainable urban development in the age of climate change—people: The Cure or Curse. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, pp 133–156

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Cheshmehzangi A, Dawodu A, Sharifi A (2021) Sustainable urbanism in China. Routledge, New York and London

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Corburn J (2009) Toward the healthy city: people, places, and the politics of urban planning. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Davies-Vengoechea X (2004) A positive concept of peace. Keeping the peace: conflict resolution and peaceful societies around the world. pp 11–18

    Google Scholar 

  • DeWit A (2020) Resource-efficiency and critical raw materials in Covid-19 and recovery. Rikkyo Econ Rev. 74(1):1–58. Available from: https://economics.rikkyo.ac.jp/research/paper/pudcar00000002ed-att/p001-058_74-1.pdf

  • Di Maio F, Rem PC, Baldé K, Polder M (2017) Measuring resource efficiency and circular economy: a market value approach. Resour Conserv Recycl 122:163–171

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Diaz V, Ibrushi D, Zhao J (2021) Reconsidering systematic factors during the COVID-19 pandemic—the rising importance of ESG. Finan Res Lett 38:101870

    Google Scholar 

  • Duhl LJ, Sanchez AK, World Health Organization (1999) Healthy cities and the city planning process: a background document on links between health and urban planning (No. EUR/ICP/CHDV 03 04 03). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe

    Google Scholar 

  • Ekins P, Hughes N, Brigenzu S, Arden Clark C, Fischer-Kowalski M, Graedel T, Hajer M, Hashimoto S, Hatfield-Dodds S, Havlik P, Hertwich E (2016) Resource efficiency: potential and economic implications. Report of the international resource panel, united nations environment program (UNEP), Paris. Available from: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13813/

  • Freire-González J, Vivanco DF (2020) Pandemics and the environmental rebound effect: reflections from COVID-19. Environ Resour Econ 1–4

    Google Scholar 

  • Gutiérrez-Montes IA (2005) Healthy communities equal healthy ecosystems? Evolution (and breakdown) of a participatory ecological research project towards a community natural resource management process. San Miguel Chimalapa (Mexico). Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/1735/

  • Happaerts S (2016) Discourse and practice of transitions in international policymaking on resource efficiency in the EU. In: Brauch HG, Spring UO, Grin J, Scheffran J (eds) Handbook on sustainability transition and sustainable peace. Springer, Cham, pp 869–884

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Harris IM (2004) Peace education theory. J Peace Educ 1(1):5–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Helm D (2020) The environmental impacts of the coronavirus. Environ Resource Econ 76:21–38

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kang A, Ren L, Hua C, Song H, Dong M, Fang Z, Zhu M (2021) Environmental management strategy in response to COVID-19 in China: based on text mining of government open information. Sci Total Environ 769:145158

    Google Scholar 

  • Krampe F (2017) Toward sustainable peace: a new research agenda for post-conflict natural resource management. Global Environ Polit 17(4):1–8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marton-Lafevre J (2007) Peace parks: conservation and conflict resolution. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Mori H, Takahashi Y, Zusman E, Mader A, Kawazu E, Otsuka T, Moinuddin M, King P, Elder M, Teoh WCS, Takeda T (2020) Implications of COVID-19 for the environment and sustainability. Available from: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/covid19-e/en

  • Morris D (1987) Healthy cities: self-reliant cities. Health Promot Int 2(2):169–176

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nellemann C, Henriksen R, Kreilhuber A, Stewart D, Kotsovou M, Raxter P, Mrema E, Barrat S (2016) The rise of environmental crime: a growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

    Google Scholar 

  • Petrović N (Sep 2020) Simulation environment for optimal resource planning during COVID-19 crisis. In: 2020 55th international scientific conference on information, communication and energy systems and technologies (ICEST). IEEE, pp 23–26

    Google Scholar 

  • Ramaswami A, Russell AG, Culligan PJ, Sharma KR, Kumar E (2016) Meta-principles for developing smart, sustainable, and healthy cities. Science 352(6288):940–943

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ratner, L., Martin-Blais, R., Warrell, C., & Narla, N. P. (2020). Reflections on Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Six Lessons from Working in Resource-Denied Settings. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 102(6), 1178-1180

    Google Scholar 

  • Ridzuan AR, Shaari MS, Rosli A, Jamil ARM, Siswantini S, Lestari A, Zakaria S (2021) The nexus between economic growth and natural resource abundance in selected ASEAN countries before pandemic Covid-19. Int J Energ Econ Policy 11(2):281

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rissler GE, Shields PM (2019) Positive peace—A necessary touchstone for public administration. Adm Theory Prax, 41(1):60–78

    Google Scholar 

  • Rousseau S, Deschacht N (2020) Public awareness of nature and the environment during the COVID-19 crisis. Environ Resour Econ 76(4):1149–1159

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sarkar P, Debnath N, Reang D (2021) Coupled human-environment system amid COVID-19 crisis: a conceptual model to understand the nexus. Sci Total Environ 753:141757

    Google Scholar 

  • Schafer J, Black R (2003) Conflict, peace, and the history of natural resource management in Sussundenga district, Mozambique. Afr Stud Rev 55–81

    Google Scholar 

  • Seddighi H (2020) COVID-19 as a natural disaster: focusing on exposure and vulnerability for response. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 14(4):e42–e43

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Severo EA, De Guimarães JCF, Dellarmelin ML (2021) Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental awareness, sustainable consumption and social responsibility: evidence from generations in Brazil and Portugal. J Cleaner Prod 286:124947

    Google Scholar 

  • Shields PM, Soeters J (2017) Peaceweaving: Jane Addams, positive peace, and public administration. Am Rev Public Adm 47(3):323–339

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Walters G, Broome N, Cracco M, Dash T, Dudley N, Elías S, Hymas O, Mangubhai S, Mohan V, Niederberger T, Achtone C (2021) COVID-19, indigenous peoples, local communities and natural resource governance. Parks 27:57–62

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • You S, Sonne C, Ok YS (2020) COVID-19’s unsustainable waste management. Science 368(6498):1438

    Google Scholar 

  • Zhang Y, Yang Z (2007) Eco-efficiency of urban material metabolism: a case study in Shenzhen, China. Acta Ecol Sin 27(8):3124–3131

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhou X (2006) The Canada healthy city program: practice and experience [J]. J Public Manag 3. https://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTotal-GGGL200603013.htm

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

    Ali Cheshmehzangi

Authors
  1. Ali Cheshmehzangi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Cheshmehzangi, A. (2021). Resource Efficiency and Distribution: Healthy Environments for Healthy Cities. In: Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4888-5_8

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4888-5_8

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore

  • Print ISBN: 978-981-16-4887-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-981-16-4888-5

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation