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Prof. Roderick Lawrence
Honorary Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Roderick J. Lawrence is Honorary Professor at the Geneva School of Social Sciences (G3S) at the University of Geneva since 2015. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences "Network for transdisciplinary research" since 2009. He was the founding Director of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development at the University of Geneva from 2003 to 2015.

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Journal article
Published: 15 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Despite growing urban electricity consumption, information on actual energy use in the household sector is still limited and causal factors leading to electricity consumption remain speculative due to urban expansion and its growing complexity, particularly in developing countries such as Malaysia. This study aims to examine the critical determinants of household electricity consumption by evaluating the patterns and flows of consumption and analysing relationships and their effects on electricity usage among 620 urban households in Seremban, Malaysia. Results suggest that the average urban household electricity consumption is 648.31 kWh/month; this value continues to grow with the increase in the household monthly income (r = 0.360; p < 0.01) and number of rooms (r = 0.360; p < 0.01) as quality of life improves. A large portion of electricity is allocated for kitchen/home consumption, followed by cooling and lighting. Multiple linear regressions revealed that married households with a high monthly income and living in spacious houses together with three to five people are important predictors of electricity consumption in Seremban. This study empirically identified that the number of rooms is the most critical factor of electricity consumption and strategies to increase energy efficiency, maintain resource sustainability and minimise greenhouse gas threat on the urban ecosystem are vital. Therefore, promoting low carbon initiatives for energy conservation and technology improvement and implementing policies in the domestic sector are essential to achieve the greatest potential energy consumption reduction in urban regions.

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Sharif Ali; Muhammad Razman; Azahan Awang; M. Asyraf; M. Ishak; R. Ilyas; Roderick Lawrence. Critical Determinants of Household Electricity Consumption in a Rapidly Growing City. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4441 .

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Sharif Ali, Muhammad Razman, Azahan Awang, M. Asyraf, M. Ishak, R. Ilyas, Roderick Lawrence. Critical Determinants of Household Electricity Consumption in a Rapidly Growing City. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4441.

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Sharif Ali; Muhammad Razman; Azahan Awang; M. Asyraf; M. Ishak; R. Ilyas; Roderick Lawrence. 2021. "Critical Determinants of Household Electricity Consumption in a Rapidly Growing City." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4441.

Journal article
Published: 24 September 2020 in Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science
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The term ‘transdisciplinarity’ was introduced 50 years ago at the International Seminar on Interdisciplinarity in Universities in Nice, France. Then, transdisciplinary contributions were defined as those establishing a common system of axioms for a set of disciplines using systemic logics and the synthesis of higher order disciplinary relationships that distinguish transdisciplinary from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions. These key principles are recalled because societal challenges and problems, such as the current coronavirus pandemic, highlight the difficulty of many scientists, public administrators and politicians to think systemically within and beyond the conceptual and methodological boundaries of their discipline and profession. Although discipline-based expertise is needed about coronavirus, alone, it cannot provide a comprehensive understanding necessary for effective responses to its multiple impacts within and beyond the public health sector. This article proposes that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic should be considered as an emergent, complex, contextual, and systemic societal challenge that requires concerted actions involving not only disciplinary and professional expertise but also other types of knowledge and know-how. The article includes a conceptual framework that represents this transdisciplinarity.

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Roderick Lawrence. Advancing with Transdisciplinarity:. Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science 2020, 11, 1 .

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Roderick Lawrence. Advancing with Transdisciplinarity:. Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science. 2020; 11 ():1.

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Roderick Lawrence. 2020. "Advancing with Transdisciplinarity:." Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science 11, no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 24 July 2020 in Cities & Health
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Statement by the scientific committee* of the International Science Council’s Programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing, on critical elements of urban health action in response to the epidemic.

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Franz Gatzweiler; Bojie Fu; Celine Rozenblat; Huey-Jen Jenny Su; Isaac Luginaah; Jason Corburn; Jo Ivey Boufford; Juan Vela Valdes; Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi; Philippa Howden-Chapman; R. B. Singh; Rachel Cooper; Tolullah Oni; Yong-Guan Zhu. COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally. Cities & Health 2020, 1 -5.

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Franz Gatzweiler, Bojie Fu, Celine Rozenblat, Huey-Jen Jenny Su, Isaac Luginaah, Jason Corburn, Jo Ivey Boufford, Juan Vela Valdes, Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi, Philippa Howden-Chapman, R. B. Singh, Rachel Cooper, Tolullah Oni, Yong-Guan Zhu. COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally. Cities & Health. 2020; ():1-5.

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Franz Gatzweiler; Bojie Fu; Celine Rozenblat; Huey-Jen Jenny Su; Isaac Luginaah; Jason Corburn; Jo Ivey Boufford; Juan Vela Valdes; Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi; Philippa Howden-Chapman; R. B. Singh; Rachel Cooper; Tolullah Oni; Yong-Guan Zhu. 2020. "COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally." Cities & Health , no. : 1-5.

Correction
Published: 03 July 2020 in Journal of Urban Health
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Several types of resources coexist for coordinated action and systemic responses to this extraordinary situation--administrative, behavioural, financial, health care, legal and medical resources--that have been used at different geo-political levels, sometimes in an uncoordinated fashion of ‘winner takes all’.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Correction to: Responding to COVID-19: What’s the Problem? Journal of Urban Health 2020, 97, 588 -588.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Correction to: Responding to COVID-19: What’s the Problem? Journal of Urban Health. 2020; 97 (4):588-588.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. 2020. "Correction to: Responding to COVID-19: What’s the Problem?" Journal of Urban Health 97, no. 4: 588-588.

Article
Published: 05 June 2020 in Journal of Urban Health
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This commentary argues that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic should be considered as a transdisciplinary societal challenge that requires coordinated systemic thinking and actions in the context of uncertainty. Responses to the propagation of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the health, economic and social impacts of Covid-19 are complex, emergent and unpredictable. We describe the virtuous relations between three prerequisite conditions—multilevel governance, knowledge and types of resources and individual and collective behaviours—that should be combined in transdisciplinary responses.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Responding to COVID-19: What’s the Problem? Journal of Urban Health 2020, 97, 583 -587.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Responding to COVID-19: What’s the Problem? Journal of Urban Health. 2020; 97 (4):583-587.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. 2020. "Responding to COVID-19: What’s the Problem?" Journal of Urban Health 97, no. 4: 583-587.

Journal article
Published: 05 June 2020
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Roderick J Lawrence. Responding to COVID-19: What's the Problem? 2020, 1 .

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Roderick J Lawrence. Responding to COVID-19: What's the Problem? . 2020; ():1.

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Roderick J Lawrence. 2020. "Responding to COVID-19: What's the Problem?" , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 13 May 2020 in Journal of Chinese Governance
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We aim to investigate the governance challenges of many Chinese urban governments to co-deliver migrant integration and urban green space provision. In specific, we examine the existing institutional arrangements applied in the Haizhu Wetland Park Project in Guangzhou and the consequential marginality. Why is it challenging for many urban governments to take social marginality into account in the conservation of urban green spaces? We approach this research question with the concepts of marginality, complex social-ecological systems, and institutional fit. We construct a conceptual framework to identify and explain the types of marginality emerged and to analyze the institutional fit in the case study. Our analysis reveals a segregative effect in the current institutional arrangements. On the one hand, they are cost-efficient in ecological restoration and urban green space conservation; on the other, not effective in addressing migrant integration and wellbeing. Current institutional arrangements segregate these two interconnected issues, leading to the marginalization of urban migrants. The current institutional segregativity reveals the degree of challenge to balance the pursuits between social equity and ecological benefits. For more collaborative and inclusive urban governance, future research is needed to understand whether the lacking integration of urban migrants is an institutional blind spot.

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Jieling Liu; Franz W. Gatzweiler. The institutional challenge to co-deliver migrant integration and urban greening—evidence from Haizhu Wetland Park Project in Guangzhou, China. Journal of Chinese Governance 2020, 1 -21.

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Jieling Liu, Franz W. Gatzweiler. The institutional challenge to co-deliver migrant integration and urban greening—evidence from Haizhu Wetland Park Project in Guangzhou, China. Journal of Chinese Governance. 2020; ():1-21.

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Jieling Liu; Franz W. Gatzweiler. 2020. "The institutional challenge to co-deliver migrant integration and urban greening—evidence from Haizhu Wetland Park Project in Guangzhou, China." Journal of Chinese Governance , no. : 1-21.

Chapter
Published: 24 January 2020 in Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
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Complex problems of urban health and wellbeing cause millions of premature deaths annually and are beyond the reach of individual problem-solving capabilities. Collective and artificial intelligence (CI + AI) working together can address the complex challenges of urban health.

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Franz W. Gatzweiler. Advancing Urban Health and Wellbeing Through Collective and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach 3.0. Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment 2020, 33 -38.

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Franz W. Gatzweiler. Advancing Urban Health and Wellbeing Through Collective and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach 3.0. Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment. 2020; ():33-38.

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Franz W. Gatzweiler. 2020. "Advancing Urban Health and Wellbeing Through Collective and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach 3.0." Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment , no. : 33-38.

Journal article
Published: 20 January 2020 in Cities & Health
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This paper is a think piece about planning and constructing built environments and infrastructure for healthy cities and communities founded on combinations of different types of knowledge and ways of knowing that include creative thinking. Hence, different disciplinary skills and competences should be interrelated, synthesized and applied creatively in complementary ways during concerted action between consortia of researchers, practitioners and representatives of civil society. Disciplines and professions should recognize the necessity of collective thinking that creatively combines knowledge, skills and competences in novel ways that respond to persistent problems in cities harmful to planetary health and human well-being. The paper discusses the dialectical and virtuous relations between discipline-based knowledge, profession-based know-how, and the ways of knowing of citizens. Then it advocates a mutual exchange between different types knowledge and ways of knowing by transdisciplinary contributions, because they enable a shared understanding of a problematic situation before it is changed. Creative and imaginative thinking are necessary to synthesize different types of knowledge and ways of knowing. This kind of contribution is illustrated by two large urban projects: the community-led Ringland Project for road traffic in Antwerp, Belgium, and the co-creation of a new housing cooperative in Zurich, Switzerland. Both projects have direct and indirect impacts on health.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Collective and creative consortia: combining knowledge, ways of knowing and praxis. Cities & Health 2020, 4, 237 -249.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Collective and creative consortia: combining knowledge, ways of knowing and praxis. Cities & Health. 2020; 4 (2):237-249.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. 2020. "Collective and creative consortia: combining knowledge, ways of knowing and praxis." Cities & Health 4, no. 2: 237-249.

Journal article
Published: 29 July 2019 in Sustainability
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Urban transformations are complex, dynamic, and systemic societal phenomena that have many positive and negative consequences, including irreversible changes to land-use and loss of soil permeability, deforestation and accelerating losses of biodiversity, energy consumption and increasing volumes of green-house gas emissions, demographics and greater socio-economic inequalities, and accelerating incidences of non-communicable diseases. These omnipresent diseases (e.g., asthma, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes) have no cultural, geographical, or socio-economic boundaries and they impact all age groups including children and young adults. Local and national authorities North and South of the Equator, and international organizations and networks, have rarely responded effectively to children’s health challenges in the context of rapid urban development. The purpose of this article is to describe and illustrate more effective approaches. It proposes new ideas, founded on collective thinking involving several disciplines and professions, and new working methods, founded on collaboration with community associations in civil society. Both promote shared understandings about the complex, dynamic, systemic, and emergent nature of urban health risks for children. The article explains why transdisciplinary contributions should be distinguished from multi- and inter-disciplinary contributions, and it presents examples of participatory action research in the WHO European region about children’s health.

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Roderick Lawrence. Transdisciplinary Responses to Children’s Health Challenges in the Context of Rapid Urbanization. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4097 .

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Roderick Lawrence. Transdisciplinary Responses to Children’s Health Challenges in the Context of Rapid Urbanization. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (15):4097.

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Roderick Lawrence. 2019. "Transdisciplinary Responses to Children’s Health Challenges in the Context of Rapid Urbanization." Sustainability 11, no. 15: 4097.

Full paper
Published: 07 August 2018 in Global Challenges
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This paper describes the development, conceptualization, and implementation of a transdisciplinary research pilot, the aim of which is to understand how human and planetary health could become a priority for those who control the urban development process. Key challenges include a significant dislocation between academia and the real world, alongside systemic failures in valuation and assessment mechanisms. The National Institutes of Health four‐phase model of transdisciplinary team‐based research is drawn on and adapted to reflect on what has worked well and what has not operationally. Results underscore the need for experienced academics open to new collaborations and ways of working; clarity of leadership without compromising exploration; clarification of the poorly understood “impacts interface” and navigation toward effective real world impact; acknowledgement of the additional time and resource required for transdisciplinary research and “nonacademic” researchers. Having practitioner‐researchers as part of the research leadership team requires rigourous reflective practice and effective management, but it can also ensure breadth in transdisciplinary outlook as well as constant course correction toward real‐world impact. It is important for the research community to understand better the opportunities and limitations provided by knowledge intermediaries in terms of function, specialism, and experience.

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Daniel Black; Gabriel Scally; Judy Orme; Alistair Hunt; Paul Pilkington; Roderick Lawrence; Kristie Ebi. Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development: Reflections on the Operationalization of a Transdisciplinary Case Study. Global Challenges 2018, 3, 1 .

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Daniel Black, Gabriel Scally, Judy Orme, Alistair Hunt, Paul Pilkington, Roderick Lawrence, Kristie Ebi. Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development: Reflections on the Operationalization of a Transdisciplinary Case Study. Global Challenges. 2018; 3 (4):1.

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Daniel Black; Gabriel Scally; Judy Orme; Alistair Hunt; Paul Pilkington; Roderick Lawrence; Kristie Ebi. 2018. "Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development: Reflections on the Operationalization of a Transdisciplinary Case Study." Global Challenges 3, no. 4: 1.

Chapter
Published: 14 July 2018 in Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning
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There are multiple consequences of urbanization and the development of cities including irreversible changes to ecosystems and diverse impacts on human health. The multiple consequences of urban development are difficult to understand owing to the complexity, diversity, and unpredictability of urbanization. The interrelations between human groups, their habitat and different kinds of global change to the biosphere and ecosystems are complex, emergent and systemic. This chapter argues that an interdisciplinary approach based on the generic principles of human ecology can improve our understanding of the consequences of large-scale urban development for health and well-being. This knowledge should be the foundation of urban planning and building construction. The advantage of applying principles of human ecology stem from its integrated conceptual framework of the multiple relations between human groups and all the components of their natural and built environments. This integrated, systemic framework can be applied to analyse the seven fundamental constituents of cities and urban development while addressing the challenge of urban health as a global phenomenon in the twenty-first century.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Human Ecology in the Context of Urbanisation. Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning 2018, 89 -109.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Human Ecology in the Context of Urbanisation. Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning. 2018; ():89-109.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. 2018. "Human Ecology in the Context of Urbanisation." Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning , no. : 89-109.

Communication
Published: 12 July 2017 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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The low impact of scientific research on the relations between housing and health during the last 30 years can be attributed to a number of reasons. First, statistical analyses have meant to improve understanding of the relations between what are interpreted and measured as causal factors. However, any single statistical approach fails to account for the dynamic non-linear relations between multiple factors and therefore cannot analyze systemic complexity. Second, there has been too little accumulation and validation of knowledge from scientific research owing to the dominance of cross-sectional studies, and the lack of coordinated research agendas using these approaches in order to confirm empirical findings. Hence, there is little evidence indicating that public policies in both the housing and the public health sectors in specific localities have benefited from the accumulated evidence of empirical research. Third, the findings from empirical studies have been published in academic journals and monographs but rarely disseminated to actors and institutions in the public and private sectors. Hence housing and health research and policy formulation have not been consolidated during the last three decades. The author of this communication argues for a radical shift from conventional disciplinary and multi-disciplinary contributions to transdisciplinary research programmes and projects that formulate and apply innovative approaches founded on conceptual frameworks that apply systems thinking for the integration of knowledge and know-how of researchers, policy makers, and professional practitioners in precise localities.

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Roderick Lawrence. Constancy and Change: Key Issues in Housing and Health Research, 1987–2017. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2017, 14, 763 .

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Roderick Lawrence. Constancy and Change: Key Issues in Housing and Health Research, 1987–2017. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017; 14 (7):763.

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Roderick Lawrence. 2017. "Constancy and Change: Key Issues in Housing and Health Research, 1987–2017." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14, no. 7: 763.

Editorial
Published: 10 July 2017 in Journal of Urban Health
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The current disconnection between access to increasing amounts of data about urbanization, health, and other global changes and the conflicting meanings and values of that data has created uncertainty and reduced the ability of people to act upon available information which they do not necessarily understand. We see a disconnection between increasing data availability and data processing capability and capacity. In response to this disconnection, modeling has been attributed an important role in international and national research programs in order to predict the future based on past and recent trends. Predictive models are often data heavy and founded on assumptions which are difficult to verify, especially regarding urban health issues in specific contexts. Producing large volumes of data warrants debate about what data are prerequisites for better understanding human health in changing urban environments. Another concern is how data and information can be used to apply knowledge. Making sense of empirical knowledge requires a new transdisciplinary knowledge domain created by a commitment to convergence between researchers in multiple academic disciplines and other actors and institutions in cities. Disciplinary-based researchers are no longer the sole producers of empirical knowledge. Today, diverse kinds of knowledge are becoming an emergent product of multiple societal stakeholders acting collectively to address challenges that impact on their habitat, their livelihood, and their health. Insights from complexity science also require a fundamental rethinking of the role and responsibility of human agency while admitting rather than denying complexity and radical uncertainty.

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Roderick J. Lawrence; Franz W. Gatzweiler. Wanted: a Transdisciplinary Knowledge Domain for Urban Health. Journal of Urban Health 2017, 94, 592 -596.

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Roderick J. Lawrence, Franz W. Gatzweiler. Wanted: a Transdisciplinary Knowledge Domain for Urban Health. Journal of Urban Health. 2017; 94 (4):592-596.

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Roderick J. Lawrence; Franz W. Gatzweiler. 2017. "Wanted: a Transdisciplinary Knowledge Domain for Urban Health." Journal of Urban Health 94, no. 4: 592-596.

Original scholarship
Published: 06 April 2017 in Cities & Health
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From a complexity science perspective, urban health and well-being challenges emerge due to the complexity of urban systems. Adverse urban health outcomes emerge from failing to respond to that complexity by taking a systems approach in knowledge and action which would open opportunity spaces for human agents to create benefits which in turn would generate salutogenic health and well-being outcomes. Lessons learned from complexity science suggest that adverse urban health outcomes emerge from a poor understanding of their complexity and from not engaging with them in a transdisciplinary, integrated fashion. A conceptual framework is presented which combines systems models from the natural and social sciences and explains how opportunities for advancing health and well-being can be co-created. The framework demonstrates that taking a systems approach is a necessary cognitive response from learning the lessons of complexity science and from understanding that humans are an inextricable part of the systems they aim at understanding and managing. Such response is at the core of systems intelligence. The implications are far reaching for the science of urban health and well-being.

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Franz W. Gatzweiler; Stefan Reis; Yi Zhang; Saroj Jayasinghe. Lessons from complexity science for urban health and well-being. Cities & Health 2017, 1, 210 -223.

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Franz W. Gatzweiler, Stefan Reis, Yi Zhang, Saroj Jayasinghe. Lessons from complexity science for urban health and well-being. Cities & Health. 2017; 1 (2):210-223.

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Franz W. Gatzweiler; Stefan Reis; Yi Zhang; Saroj Jayasinghe. 2017. "Lessons from complexity science for urban health and well-being." Cities & Health 1, no. 2: 210-223.

City know how
Published: 02 January 2017 in Cities & Health
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CITY KNOW-HOW Planetary health and human health are influenced by city lifestyles, city leadership, and city development. Changing the trajectory requires concerted action, and the journal Cities & Health journal is dedicated to supporting the flow of knowledge, in all directions to help make this happen. We are dedicated to supporting communication between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities and decision-makers in cities. The aim of the City Know-how section of the journal is to make research accessible to all, explaining the key messages to and for city leaders, communities and all those professions involved in city policy and practice. In response we would like to hear more about research priorities from those most closely connected with supporting health and health equity through everyday urban lives.

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Marcus Grant; Caroline Brown; Waleska T. Caiaffa; Anthony Capon; Jason Corburn; Chris Coutts; Carlos J. Crespo; Geraint Ellis; George Ferguson; Colin Fudge; Trevor Hancock; Roderick J. Lawrence; Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen; Tolu Oni; Susan Thompson; Cor Wagenaar; Catharine Ward Thompson; Sara Alidoust; Caryl Bosman; Alina Schnake-Mahl; Sarah Norman; Jennifer Lee Kent; Liang Ma; Corinne Mulley; José Siri. Research for City Practice. Cities & Health 2017, 1, 10 -21.

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Marcus Grant, Caroline Brown, Waleska T. Caiaffa, Anthony Capon, Jason Corburn, Chris Coutts, Carlos J. Crespo, Geraint Ellis, George Ferguson, Colin Fudge, Trevor Hancock, Roderick J. Lawrence, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Tolu Oni, Susan Thompson, Cor Wagenaar, Catharine Ward Thompson, Sara Alidoust, Caryl Bosman, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Sarah Norman, Jennifer Lee Kent, Liang Ma, Corinne Mulley, José Siri. Research for City Practice. Cities & Health. 2017; 1 (1):10-21.

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Marcus Grant; Caroline Brown; Waleska T. Caiaffa; Anthony Capon; Jason Corburn; Chris Coutts; Carlos J. Crespo; Geraint Ellis; George Ferguson; Colin Fudge; Trevor Hancock; Roderick J. Lawrence; Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen; Tolu Oni; Susan Thompson; Cor Wagenaar; Catharine Ward Thompson; Sara Alidoust; Caryl Bosman; Alina Schnake-Mahl; Sarah Norman; Jennifer Lee Kent; Liang Ma; Corinne Mulley; José Siri. 2017. "Research for City Practice." Cities & Health 1, no. 1: 10-21.

Journal article
Published: 02 January 2017 in Cities & Health
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Marcus Grant; Caroline Brown; Waleska T. Caiaffa; Anthony Capon; Jason Corburn; Chris Coutts; Carlos J. Crespo; Geraint Ellis; George Ferguson; Colin Fudge; Trevor Hancock; Roderick J. Lawrence; Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen; Tolu Oni; Susan Thompson; Cor Wagenaar; Catharine Ward Thompson. Cities and health: an evolving global conversation. Cities & Health 2017, 1, 1 -9.

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Marcus Grant, Caroline Brown, Waleska T. Caiaffa, Anthony Capon, Jason Corburn, Chris Coutts, Carlos J. Crespo, Geraint Ellis, George Ferguson, Colin Fudge, Trevor Hancock, Roderick J. Lawrence, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Tolu Oni, Susan Thompson, Cor Wagenaar, Catharine Ward Thompson. Cities and health: an evolving global conversation. Cities & Health. 2017; 1 (1):1-9.

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Marcus Grant; Caroline Brown; Waleska T. Caiaffa; Anthony Capon; Jason Corburn; Chris Coutts; Carlos J. Crespo; Geraint Ellis; George Ferguson; Colin Fudge; Trevor Hancock; Roderick J. Lawrence; Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen; Tolu Oni; Susan Thompson; Cor Wagenaar; Catharine Ward Thompson. 2017. "Cities and health: an evolving global conversation." Cities & Health 1, no. 1: 1-9.

Conceptual paper
Published: 02 January 2017 in Cities & Health
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Complexity is the hallmark of our habitats, our livelihoods and our health. These objects of analysis, understanding and intervention extend from our homes to our streets and neighbourhoods, to the cities and regions beyond our immediate surroundings. They are inscribed in ecological and geopolitical systems that span international and planetary levels. Over two millennia ago in Classical Greece, Hippocrates wrote about the complex web of interconnections that influence health and well-being. To achieve desired outcomes in the cities of today and tomorrow, we must transcend purely biomedical models and apply the principles of ecological public health. Collaborative systems thinking involving different disciplines and professions is essential for the implementation of this new approach, which adopts an integrated conceptual framework drawn from human ecology. This framework can underpin a shared understanding of the interdisciplinary concepts that must be applied during the transdisciplinary processes needed to address urban health challenges. This new approach is particularly important for the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New Urban Agenda and related global agreements, as we strive for effective promotion of urban health and well-being in a rapidly changing world.

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Roderick Lawrence; Anthony Capon; José Siri. Lessons from Hippocrates for contemporary urban health challenges. Cities & Health 2017, 1, 72 -82.

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Roderick Lawrence, Anthony Capon, José Siri. Lessons from Hippocrates for contemporary urban health challenges. Cities & Health. 2017; 1 (1):72-82.

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Roderick Lawrence; Anthony Capon; José Siri. 2017. "Lessons from Hippocrates for contemporary urban health challenges." Cities & Health 1, no. 1: 72-82.

Book review
Published: 18 April 2016 in Housing, Theory and Society
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Roderick J. Lawrence. Understanding Human Ecology: A Systems Approach to Sustainability. Housing, Theory and Society 2016, 34, 1 -3.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Understanding Human Ecology: A Systems Approach to Sustainability. Housing, Theory and Society. 2016; 34 (1):1-3.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. 2016. "Understanding Human Ecology: A Systems Approach to Sustainability." Housing, Theory and Society 34, no. 1: 1-3.

Book chapter
Published: 11 July 2014 in Global Environmental Change
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Since 1987, sustainable development and sustainability have been widely used but their definition is elusive. Some consider sustainable development to be anthropocentric rather than bio-centric or eco-centric. Others consider sustainable development to be an oxymoron because economic development cannot be sustained in a finite world. Several reviews of the main, sometimes conflicting interpretations of sustainable development consider how these can be translated into policies and practices. It is noteworthy that sustainable development is increasing used by the private sector for marketing and public relations. Given that there is no consensus about its meaning, sustainable development has not provided a framework for the coordination of research or policy definition and implementation across different scientific disciplines and professional sectors.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Sustainable Development and Global Change. Global Environmental Change 2014, 499 -508.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. Sustainable Development and Global Change. Global Environmental Change. 2014; ():499-508.

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Roderick J. Lawrence. 2014. "Sustainable Development and Global Change." Global Environmental Change , no. : 499-508.