WEEK 35 PUBLICATION REVIEW, 2023

 Salient points from week 35. 

1. This publication is mainly on urbanization and it complications on global health, heat waves specifically.

2. How we've chosen esthetics over one health.

3. Urban areas contribute less than 2% of the earth surface but 71-76% of global greenhouse carbondioxide emissions. 

4. It reminded me of the HLPF event by UN Habitat, discussing urbanization and resistant mechanisms.

5. We are in an anthropocentric century.

6. Heat waves as a public health dilemma affecting all age groups and genders. 

7.It increases the workload on the health sector by worsening underlying medical conditions. 

8. Global surface temperature has increased by 1.09 degrees from 2001 -2020.

9. Effect of heat wave is the excessive flooding we are experiencing across the global north and south, making countries lose a huge part of their economies. 

10. Heat waves have a negative effect on water security which in turn affects the health of the populace through water borne diseases. 


Ways forward?#Eachonehelpone

1.Efficient urbanization strategies.

2. Outdoor cooling mechanisms especially in cities.

3. Feasible holistic policies towards urbanization.

4. Community adaptation eg plants in buildings In Singapore 

5.Accountability.


As I emphasize in many of my posts, we are integrated at all levels and in all sectors, we can see how the job of an architect, civil engineer, town planner et al affects the health sector. We are working towards 2030, 2050, achieving SDGs and other goals but it seems the more we move forward, the more we are dragging ourselves backward. This reinforces the fact that climate justice is not the business of the UN, and organizations working majorly on the environment, climate change is everyone's mandate.


#Eachonehelpone



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