Intersectoral action for health equity as it relates to climate change in Canada: contributions from critical systems heuristics

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095-1100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Buse
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Intersectoral Action ◽  
Critical Systems Heuristics

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Dan Royles
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter considers what it means to write the history of a crisis that has not yet ended, and briefly traces connections among the stories told in previous chapters. It connects these stories to the ongoing fight for health equity in the United States, including the author’s involvement in the fight to preserve the Affordable Care Act in the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Finally, it compares HIV/AIDS to climate change, as both are existential crises that will disproportionately affect poor communities of color.

It’s a Consumptagenic World

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-112
Author(s):  
Sharon Friel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Food System ◽  
Health Inequity ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Climate Change And Health

This chapter identifies a system in which some of the key drivers of health inequity fuel climate change, which in turn fuels further inequity. This process is based on excessive production and consumption; it constitutes a consumptagenic system. The chapter tracks the evolution of the consumptagenic system through the globalization of a market-based and fossil fuel–dependent economic system. It describes the addiction of this system to economic growth as the ultimate goal and to forms of consumption that are highly polluting. The last parts of the chapter focus on the roles of an industrial food system and urbanization as two central cogs in the consumptagenic system that is pushing our planet toward irreparable destabilization. The subsequent impacts, from climate change and health equity, of both of these systems (industrial food system and urbanization) are then described.

scholarly journals Improving IT project governance: A reflective analysis based on critical systems heuristics

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Johnstone ◽  
Mary Tate
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Critical Systems Thinking ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Critical Systems Heuristics ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
It Project ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Structural Conflict

IT project governance involves establishing authority structures, policies and mechanisms for IT projects. However, the way governance arrangements are implemented can sometimes exclude or marginalise important stakeholders. In this paper, we use critical systems thinking, and the notions of boundary critique and entrenched structural conflict, to inform a critical re-analysis of a case study where the governance proved relatively ineffective. We use the ‘twelve questions’ from the critical systems heuristics (CSH) approach to diagnose problems with governance arrangements and suggest solutions. Based on this, we suggest the CSH approach has theoretical and practical efficacy for improving IT project governance in general.

Toward Valuing With Critical Systems Heuristics

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily F. Gates
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Critical Systems Heuristics ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Central Task ◽  
The Social

Evaluation is defined by its central task of valuing—the process and product of judging the merit, worth, or significance of a policy or program. However, there are no clear-cut ways to consider values and render value judgments in evaluation practice. There remains contention in the evaluation field about whether and how to make value judgments. No approach to valuing eliminates the uncertainty, plurality, and potential for conflict that comes with considering values. This article explores what critical systems heuristics (CSH), an area of applied systems thinking, might contribute to four long-standing issues regarding valuing: envisioning the social value of evaluation, framing the evaluand and evaluation, selecting and justifying criteria, and determining the roles of the evaluator(s) and stakeholders in valuing. CSH contributes concepts and tools that, in theory, support more reflective, responsible valuing although further practical application is needed.

scholarly journals An Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral Action-research Method: Case-Study of Climate Change Adaptation by Cities Using Participatory Web 2.0 Urban Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève VACHON ◽  
Marie-Noël Chouinard ◽  
Geneviève Cloutier ◽  
Catherine Dubois ◽  
Carole Després
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Intersectoral Action ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Negative Impacts

This paper discusses the last segment of a three-year interdisciplinary and intersectoral action research on climate change and urban transformation. The project had, as one of its core missions, the role of imagining urban and architectural adaptations for urban neighbourhoods that would contribute to minimizing the negative impacts of climate change on people’s comfort, health and safety. The first part of the paper describes the collaborative design and augmented participation method used in the context of Québec City, Canada. These include the design process conducted to imagine adaptation scenarios, the visual strategies undertaken to make these understandable for the population, and the Web 2.0 crowdsourcing approach forwarded to measure feasibility and social acceptability of the design and visualization strategies. The second part discusses three positive outcomes of the process. First, collaborative design conducted with intersectoral groups of experts constitutes a promising avenue to identify adaptations and evaluate their relevance. Second, crowdsourcing is a powerful tool to inform the general public about climate change including both negative and potential aspects. As well, the crowdsource model allows access to particular knowledge which empowered users to make changes around their homes and neighbourhoods or advocating action from their local government. Crowdsourcing is also an efficient tool to help understand what people know about the potential impact of climate change and how it bears on their comfort, health and safety. Third and finally, the design proposals and the evaluation comments generated by working closely with various stakeholders, along with the public on-line consultation, allow for the induction of pragmatic recommendations that can be used as decision aids by elected officials and civil servants to better prepare their municipalities for climate change. 

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