The Need for Data Contextualization in Urban-Water Systems in Terms of Environmental and Behavioural Health.

Abstract

The current paper addresses the need for making scientific knowledge easily accessible, comprehensible, and tailored for citizens, especially in urban-water habitats, enabling their behavioural change and consequent climate change resilience. It proposes a schema that integrates data from different sources and highlights their relevance to citizens (aiming to raise their awareness), the impact on the citizens' Quality of Life as well as the way they (will have to) perform various activities. Targeted bibliographical research through online digital libraries was conducted to capture the scientific coverage and validation of this need. As an outcome, the complexity and interdependencies of environmental and behavioural health issues growth has been confirmed, and public health programs have begun to identify the need for the integration of data from diverse sources. Therefore, the proposed schema could be used for enabling better design of public health policy making.