Climate Change

Event

21st International Conference on Urban Health

Conference

The NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities has won a bid to host the 21st International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH 2025) in November 2025 at Tākina in Wellington.

Density Done Well in our Capital: The Importance of Design

Seminar

We held a seminar with speakers Crystal Olin and Farzad Zamani on Density Done Well in our Capital: The Importance of Design.

Public Health Summer School Symposia 2021

Seminar
We held two Public Health Summer School 2021 symposia at the University of Otago Wellington in February. Building for zero carbon by 2050 and Eviction and its consequences.

Publication or Resource

Gatzweiler, F.
Howden-Chapman, P.
A New Interdisciplinary Science Plan for Urban Health and Wellbeing in an Age of Increasing Complexity.
Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
36(2), 21—26.
World Health Organization (Eds.).
WHO Housing and health guidelines - Recommendations to promote healthy housing for a sustainable and equitable future.
World Health Organization.

The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing.

Download document
WHO Housing and health guidelines.pdf
Hasan, M. A.
Chapman, R.
Frame, D. J.
Acceptability of Transport Emissions Reduction Policies: A Multi-Criteria Analysis.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,
133, 110298.
Ürge-Vorsatz, D.
Chapman, R.
1.5°C of Global Warming: Can We Still Get There? Insights from the Urban Development Sector.
In L. Grant, H. Viggers & P. Howden-Chapman (Eds.), Improving Buildings, Cutting Carbon.
Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts, Aotearoa
Hales, S.
Climate change, extreme rainfall events, drinking water and enteric disease.
Reviews on Environmental Health,
34(1).
Hess, J.J. Ranadive, N. Boyer, C.J. Aleksandrowicz, L. ...
Hales, S.
et al.
Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions.
Environmental Health Perspectives,
128(11):115001
Mizdrak, A. Cobiac, L. J. Cleghorn, C. L.
Woodward, A.
Blakely, T.
Fuelling walking and cycling: human powered locomotion is associated with non-negligible greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientific reports
10(1).
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