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BioCities as Promotors of Health and Well-being

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Transforming Biocities

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Abstract

The mainstream public health community often treats the natural environment with ambivalence. On one side, there are infectious agents, extreme weather, and catastrophic events such as floods, landslides, wildfires, storms, and earthquakes that directly or indirectly sicken, injure, or kill people (Hartig et al. 2014). On the other hand, human health is positively connected with the characteristics and quality of nature near to where people live. This ambivalence becomes crucial in cities where the living environment has peculiar characteristics both for humans and other living organisms. Indeed, there are many ways in which the urban environment can affect human health, positively or negatively. BioCities develop as dynamic socio-ecological systems hosted by nature. Therefore, addressing the issue of health according to an integrated and holistic approach, which reduces the negative effects of the natural environment and optimises its positive aspects, is a primary pillar in the construction of BioCities.

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    Mònica Ubalde-López, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen & Payam Dadvand

  2. Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

    Giuseppina Spano & Giovanni Sanesi

  3. National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems Research, Monterotondo, Italy

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    Fabio Salbitano

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  1. University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

    Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza

  2. Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Fabio Salbitano

  4. Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Ås, Norway

    Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo

  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Stefano Boeri

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Ubalde-López, M. et al. (2023). BioCities as Promotors of Health and Well-being. In: Scarascia-Mugnozza, G.E., Guallart, V., Salbitano, F., Ottaviani Aalmo, G., Boeri, S. (eds) Transforming Biocities. Future City, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29466-2_6

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