Global health challenges related to demographic and climate changes, and their implications for urban and territorial planning

The proposed scientific exchange will bring together a select group of scholars and practitioners from Switzerland, Brazil, Morocco, France and Spain to set a joint research agenda on two phenomena of global relevance: a generalized trend of rapid population aging and climate change. Through mutual learning across different climatic regions of the world, the proposed transdisciplinary scientific exchange aims to jointly identify specific lines of research that can help bridge critical knowledge-action gaps regarding the integration of demographic and climate changes into urban and territorial planning. Tangible outcomes of the workshop will include (i) a jointly developed and consolidated research agenda to be used as a blueprint for developing proposals targeting different research project calls, (ii) a jointly developed peer-reviewed publication (opinion/viewpoint paper) presenting the urban health research needs identified in the workshops; and (iii) the dissemination of the outcomes of the scientific exchange in three languages (English, French, and Portuguese) through our networks, including the international channels of WHO’s Age-Friendly Environments Knowledge & Action Hubs.