Sustainable Development and Health

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Sustainable Development and Health

• Back to the future
• Distant parking
• Promenera till jobbet
• Architecture makes you fat
• Healthy cities / Sustainable cities

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Sustainable Development and Health

• Public health and sustainable development high
  on
• policy agendas
• Interdependent agendas
• Integration in
• - Healthy Cities projects
• - Sustainable communities guidance
• - Local Strategic Partnerships
• - Local authority and public health practice
• BUT . . . .
• - Fragmentation
• - Silos
• - Absence of connectedness
• - Targets and indicators getting in the way

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Sustainable Development and Health
The walking school bus
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• Defusing the demographic time-bomb
• Ageing factors
• - Decline in birth rates
• - Increase in life expectancy
• Age segmentation
• - Younger elderly
• - Older elderly
• Implications
• - Dependency ratios
• - Pension funding pressures
• - Labour force participation rates in
• decline after 2005 (OECD)

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1. 0-14 and 60/65 as percentage of the
rest 2. Source derived from ODPM
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• Defusing the demographic time-bomb
• Policy questions and ideas
• Finance and fiscal issues
• Spatial dimensions of ageing ? future of
  services ?
• Myths and stereotypes
• Institutional care/independence ?
• Voice and representation ?
• Active ageing/ageing in place ?

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• Defusing the demographic time-bomb
• Policy questions and ideas
• Intergenerational/intercultural?
• Employment/work roles/leisure?
• Universal design?
• New technologies and innovations?
• Gender difference?
• Households/sustainable settlements/cities/commu
  nities?
• Research/policy agendas?

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Sustainable Communities Plan - South West
Total number of homes proposed by New Growth
Point 2006-2016
Studies and capacity support
New Growth Point
Capital projects
Total funding
Exeter and East Devon
9,250
862,000
100,000
962,000
Plymouth
12,250
-
960,000
960,000
7,000
625,000
155,000
780,000
Poole
Swindon
17,700
2,850,000
300,000
3,150,000
Taunton
6,600
-
95,000
95,000
5,000
500,000
230,000
730,000
Torbay
Carrick (Truro)
5,000
500,000
410,000
910,000
West of England Partnership
46,250
1,100,000
155,000
1,255,000
TOTAL
109,050
6,437,000
8,842,000
2,405,000
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Sustainable Development and Health

• Rethinking infrastructure
• Zero carbon development
• Integrating regeneration with new build
• Lifting design quality
• Meeting sustainable neighbourhoods and
• solutions project advice and building in
  healthier living
• Making places to live (mixed uses, reasons to
  walk
• and cycle, greenspaces, biodiversity,
  understanding
• the seasons etc).

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