Description:
This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people's understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. It also presents new tools for cities to enhance awareness of and facilitate prioritization of climate risk management choices.
Review Quotes:
Ella Jisun Kim's book "Cities, climate change, and public health: Building human resilience to climate change at the local level" in eight concise chapters presents the theoretical background to the "frames and games" project and shows how the application of serious games can accelerate individual and collective learning to advance readiness in climate adaptation.
The author points out the advantages and disadvantages in both game formats (a series of face-to-face role play and one online digital game) and formulates a series of policy recommendations to guide local policymakers and stakeholders in the implementation of multimodal game-based engagement in climate adaptation planning and policymaking.
In sum, the book demonstrates how serious games can be used as a knowledge brokerage tool, facilitating social learning, and integrating different knowledge systems-scientific, technical, local-in planning and policymaking processes. - Journal of Urban Affairs