Conference themes
The programme will cover the following topics:
Cities
- Conceptual models and frameworks for cities
- Defining, measuring and aligning liveable, sustainable, resilient, healthy cities
- Urban biodiversity and ecosystems
- Addressing complexity in cities
- Informal settlements
- Stakeholder engagement
- Sustainable development goals
- The New Urban Agenda
Land use planning and transport planning
- City governance and planning
- Connecting land use and transport planning
- Land use policies and travel behaviour
- Healthy urban planning
- Healthy urban transport policy measures
- Designing for compact cities
- Designing cities for healthy transportation
- Greening of cities
- Nature based solutions
- Justice in urban and transport planning
- Planning and social impacts
Planning and health
- Urban planning and health
- Transport planning and health
- City governance and public health
- Sustainable cities and health
- Resilient cities and health
- Climate change and health
- Compact cities and health
- Low carbon cities and health
- Planetary health and cities
- Pathways to healthy urban living
- Sustainable development goals and health
Environment and health
- Built environment, physical activity and health
- Built environment and mental health
- Built environment and physical health
- Urban exposure and epidemiology of air pollution
- Urban exposure and epidemiology of noise
- Urban exposure and epidemiology of temperature and heat islands
- Urban exposure and epidemiology of green space and biodiversity
- Nature based solutions and health
- Inequalities, environment and health
- Environmental justice
Engagement, impacts and future planning
- Community participation in planning
- Citizens science
- Impact of new technologies (Electric cars, autonomous vehicles)
- Health impact assessment of urban and transport planning
- Car free cities
- Low carbon cities
- Future (healthy) visions of cities
- From science to practice
- Barriers and facilitators for policy changes
- Translating evidence
- Education