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|Description=The environment is important for human development and quality of life, especially for people in developing countries. Peoples livelihoods are based on the quantity and quality of the resources they have access to. Unequal access and reduced resource quality have an unequivocal effect on these livelihoods, with negative health impacts as one of the key factors. As seen in the preceding chapters, rising demand for food, water and energy will put pressure on scarce natural resources, such as fertile land, potable water and forest resources. The provision of food, water, and energy becomes more difficult when these natural resources are not properly managed or degraded due to global environmental change. | |Description=The environment is important for human development and quality of life, especially for people in developing countries. Peoples livelihoods are based on the quantity and quality of the resources they have access to. Unequal access and reduced resource quality have an unequivocal effect on these livelihoods, with negative health impacts as one of the key factors. As seen in the preceding chapters, rising demand for food, water and energy will put pressure on scarce natural resources, such as fertile land, potable water and forest resources. The provision of food, water, and energy becomes more difficult when these natural resources are not properly managed or degraded due to global environmental change. | ||
The Global Integrated Sustainability Model | The Global Integrated Sustainability Model [[GISMO]] addresses (changes in) human development, including its distribution, improvement and continuation, as a result of changes in the three underlying sustainability domains, i.e. economic, social and environmental (Hilderink and Lucas, 2008). Among others, the model quantifies human development in terms of access to food, water and energy, the Human Development Index (HDI), Population Health measures (such as child mortality and life expectancy), and many indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). | ||
Here we concentrate on those parts of GISMO that link directly to other parts of the IMAGE core model: climate related health risks, urban and indoor air pollution related health problems, and effects of malnutrition. On all scale levels, from global UN processes to local initiatives, decision makers are concerned with improving the standards of living and human development. The IMAGE framework provides valuable insights in key environmental factors that affect human development, and how these impacts can be reduced as the result of improvements in the state of the natural environment | Here we concentrate on those parts of GISMO that link directly to other parts of the IMAGE core model: climate related health risks, urban and indoor air pollution related health problems, and effects of malnutrition. On all scale levels, from global UN processes to local initiatives, decision makers are concerned with improving the standards of living and human development. The IMAGE framework provides valuable insights in key environmental factors that affect human development, and how these impacts can be reduced as the result of improvements in the state of the natural environment | ||
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Revision as of 10:55, 2 August 2013
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Key policy issues
- What are the key future trends in human development, such as those targeted by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
- How are changes in the global environment likely to affect human development?
- How is improved access to food, water and energy likely to contribute to human development?