Urban Planning for Global Pandemics: Managing the Environments of Emerging Infectious Diseases

By taking an ecosystem approach to emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), this book gathers the scientific evidence outlining the origins of EIDs to show how a landscape-based ecosystem approach can lead to policy alternatives that draw on the expertise of planning for future pandemic prevention and management. Global EIDs are one of the world’s fastest-growing challenges to local health and are often able to cross large distances.The book targets the substantial “unknowns” surrounding these dangerous characteristics and outlines how current debates about pandemics overlook important characteristics of both the microscopic evolution of viruses themselves, as well as the social and economic systems through which they move from localized outbreak to global pandemic.Using accessible language, it highlights how planners can help advance and shape policy directions; and how investments in technologies, people, and institutions can be beneficial.Chapters emphasize the importance of creating me