{"id":269,"date":"2025-10-06T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/?post_type=chapter&p=269"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:28:20","slug":"impacts-planetary-health","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/chapter\/impacts-planetary-health\/","title":{"raw":"9.6 Impacts on planetary health","rendered":"9.6 Impacts on planetary health"},"content":{"raw":"Analyzing the intervention in relation to its implementation context, including environmental conditions, will provide an opportunity to discuss implementation analysis questions related to planetary health dimensions and intervention\u2019s impacts. These questions could explore how environmental disruptions influence the intervention\u2019s effects, as well as explore the intervention\u2019s impacts on both environmental and human systems.\r\n\r\nClimate events affect many communities and vulnerable groups and disrupt interventions\u2019 activities. For example, heatwaves affect people\u2019s day-to-day lives, droughts reduce crop yields and water supply, smoke episodes affect outdoor activities and physical health, and forest fires displace whole population groups. The list could be extended. Engaging in discussions about disruptions associated with potential climate events may raise awareness and motivate preparedness which will ultimately increase the capacity to adapt the intervention to this new state of the world.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the impacts of the intervention itself on human and natural systems can also be discussed. As we have seen, impacts on planetary health are tightly linked to the context\u2019s characteristics. When conducting an implementation analysis, it makes sense to discuss and explore the intervention\u2019s larger impacts, their range and variety, to document these in the logic model, and to further scrutinize the intervention\u2019s role in mitigating negative impacts and fostering positive impacts. Adopting planetary health lenses when designing interventions will help create positive, regenerative impacts on natural and human systems. Furthermore, it will avoid the shortcomings of siloed approaches that ignore dimensions that are not directly related to the intervention, but which place natural and human systems at greater risk.\r\n\r\nImplementation analysis is a type of analysis which often involves data collection from a wide range of actors: from participants to professionals to program commissioners. It constitutes a good opportunity to include planetary health lenses into your evaluation and to engage in group discussions.","rendered":"

Analyzing the intervention in relation to its implementation context, including environmental conditions, will provide an opportunity to discuss implementation analysis questions related to planetary health dimensions and intervention\u2019s impacts. These questions could explore how environmental disruptions influence the intervention\u2019s effects, as well as explore the intervention\u2019s impacts on both environmental and human systems.<\/p>\n

Climate events affect many communities and vulnerable groups and disrupt interventions\u2019 activities. For example, heatwaves affect people\u2019s day-to-day lives, droughts reduce crop yields and water supply, smoke episodes affect outdoor activities and physical health, and forest fires displace whole population groups. The list could be extended. Engaging in discussions about disruptions associated with potential climate events may raise awareness and motivate preparedness which will ultimately increase the capacity to adapt the intervention to this new state of the world.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the impacts of the intervention itself on human and natural systems can also be discussed. As we have seen, impacts on planetary health are tightly linked to the context\u2019s characteristics. When conducting an implementation analysis, it makes sense to discuss and explore the intervention\u2019s larger impacts, their range and variety, to document these in the logic model, and to further scrutinize the intervention\u2019s role in mitigating negative impacts and fostering positive impacts. Adopting planetary health lenses when designing interventions will help create positive, regenerative impacts on natural and human systems. Furthermore, it will avoid the shortcomings of siloed approaches that ignore dimensions that are not directly related to the intervention, but which place natural and human systems at greater risk.<\/p>\n

Implementation analysis is a type of analysis which often involves data collection from a wide range of actors: from participants to professionals to program commissioners. It constitutes a good opportunity to include planetary health lenses into your evaluation and to engage in group discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[49],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-269","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":255,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/269\/revisions\/659"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/255"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/269\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}