Under this section of the hub you can find a diverse set of resources about Healthy Adaptations to inform your research or practice and learn about global interventions, their successes and challenges.
Resources take a range of different forms including research papers, policy briefs, reports, case studies, videos, and podcasts.
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This cross-sectional ecological study uses a geographical information system to examine the relationships between the presence and accessibility of green space and county-level mortality in the state of Florida
Opinion piece on the inclusion of mental health in IPCC assessments.
This study advances a novel planning and analytical tool for assessing the potential success or failure of current and future retreat programs.
As one interviewee in Ireland explained, MCA enables better integration of “quantified but non-monetised impacts and benefits of flood relief across economic, social and environmental criteria”. However, this still appeared constrained in terms of the impact wider criteria were ultimately having on decision-making and did not appear to open-up spaces for consideration of approaches to adaptation that might be positive for wellbeing if it were more strongly foregrounded. For example, one interviewee in the UK discussed how the allocation of funding prioritises the focus of data collection on defensive/infrastructural approaches to adaptation, limiting the ability to monitor anything that falls outside of direct flood defences.
Measures of legitimacy, trust, identity, anxiety, well-being, efficacy, sense of safety, sense of voice, and a willingness to engage
In the Ghanaian context around 80% of people reported being impacted in eight of the areas measured, reflecting the pervasive consequences of this type of flood adaptation on multiple aspects of people’s lives and across domains of wellbeing. A notable anomaly was the impact on the ability of households to get comprehensive household insurance, which reflects only that household insurance is not widespread in Ghana, highlighting the importance of context for deciding key indicators of impact.
Wellbeing-oriented budgets for Canada and New Zealand in 2021, for example, both highlight health and social solidarity as explicit goals and advocate for systematic surveillance of appropriate metrics. The Well-Being Economy Alliance of countries use advances in well-being metrics to advocate for a Well-Being Economy Policy Design that should be used to evaluate every major policy area.
Find definitions for terms that are frequently used in the Healthy Adaptations Hub.
| Terminology | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affect | People’s emotional evaluation of experiences of everyday life. Affective responses to flood interventions are important for understanding the social consequences of adaptations and how these are distributed. Affective responses are also important for galvanising support for adaptation policies because of the way people can influence how they interpret social situations and their intended and actual behaviours. |
| Affective wellbeing | People’s emotional evaluation of everyday life experiences in terms of their preferences versus reality. |
| Place making | [Definition to come] |
The Healthy Adaptations Hub showcases research from a range of projects that have been undertaken by social scientists, health economists, demographers, epidemiologists, and hydrologists across multiple universities (see Underpinning Research for details on who’s been involved).
The Hub showcases a series of resources to support sustainable, health-focused climate risk adaptation, addressing mortality risk and other multi-faceted health impacts.
The Hub has been informed by underpinning research carried out as part of multiple projects addressing different aspects of these issues.
Get in touch with the Healthy Adaptations Team at:
Catherine Butler (University of Exeter) c.butler@exeter.ac.uk | Neil Adger (University of Exeter) n.adger@exeter.ac.uk | Stacey Heath (Open University) stacey.heath@open.ac.uk