ICS Estudos e Relatórios Nº1 / 2019

ICS E S T U D O S e R E L A T Ó R I O S 2019 systems approach, among others, requires implementing the systems science of cities by building systems that link knowledge to action and decision-making. Knowledge-action systems (KAS) are the social networks of actors involved in the production, sharing, and use of knowledge for action and all other types of infrastructure facilitating the flow of resources, including data and knowledge, and thereby enabling feedback, response and learning for action. Such Knowledge-action systems (Muñoz-Erickson, 2018), once institutionalized, could be referred to as the collective mind or intelligence of a city, or the "urban brain," as stated in the Xiamen Call for Action (Ebikeme et al., 2019). The relevance of this expert meeting has been confirmed by experts who united at the 9th UN-Habitat World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur, February 2018, in particular during the cross-sectoral dialogue on "Linking Health to Urban Innovation and Sustainable Development." The Scientific Committee of the Urban Health and Well-Being Programme (UHWB) has approved this expert meeting on May 29-30, 2018. Recent events further underlined the importance of this meeting. For example, members of the UN General Assembly of the high-level meeting recently approved the proposal on the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda, to establish UN-Urban , a multi-agency coordinating mechanism. Another example is the recent calls from the scientific community to develop a n international urban science platform , as well as high-level, intersectoral coordination platforms for urban health. Besides, the World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested, " Health as the Pulse of the New Urban Agenda " and significant global efforts are being made to make cities more resilient for health. Recent engagement between the UHWB Programme with Public Health England in June 2018 has confirmed that the systems approach is well accepted in the urban and public health discourse and is increasingly in demand to be applied worldwide. This expert meeting will discuss existing examples and new opportunities for implementing a systems approach to urban health and wellbeing under climate change.