Environmental Health Justice - Sustainable Development

Implementation Plan Projects Currently Underway

Part I
National leadership for integrating sustainable development principles and environmental health practice.

Part II
Development of best practice policy which integrates sustainable development practice and environmental health practice and implementation of this policy.

Part III
Guidelines informing best practice policy which integrates sustainable development principles and environmental health practice and its implementation.

Part IV
Development of best practice policy which integrates sustainable development practice and environmental health practice and implementation of this policy.

Issue: Sustainable Development Part I

Need Addressed (as identified in National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan):

National leadership for integrating sustainable development principles and environmental health practice.

Jurisdiction: Commonwealth on behalf of enHealth Council

Project:

The Commonwealth, on behalf of the enHealth Council has commissioned the development of an information kit on sustainable development and environmental health. The kit is intended to provide an overview of sustainable development from an environmental health perspective and contain a series of concise fact sheets to reinforce the importance of health in sustainable development considerations in other sectors. The fact sheets will include topics such as, transport, the home, energy use, waste management and agriculture.

Contact Details:

Ph 02 6289 7434
environhealth@health.gov.au

Issue: Sustainable Development Part II

Need Addressed (as identified in National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan):

Development of best practice policy which integrates sustainable development practice and environmental health practice and implementation of this policy.

Jurisdiction: Tasmania

Project:

Inclusion of sustainable development principles in the Tasmanian Food and Nutrition Policy.
Inclusion of explicit requirement for Health Impact Assessment in the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act

Contact Officer:

1. Judy Seal, State Nutrition Officer

2. Martin Bicevskis, Sen Medical Officer (Occupational and Environmental Health)

Contact Details:

1. Ph 03 62 33 4746
judy.seal@dhhs.tas.gov.au

2. Ph 03 62 33 2898
martin.bicevskis@dhhs.tas.gov.au

Related documents or action plans:

Tasmanian Food and Nutrition Policy
Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act
Draft National Health Impact Assessment Implementation Guidelines

Issue: Sustainable Development Part III

Need Addressed (as identified in the National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan):

Guidelines informing best practice policy which integrates sustainable development principles and environmental health practice and its implementation.

Jurisdiction: Tasmania

Projects:

Development and implementation of Health Impact Assessment legislation and associated Guidelines.

Contact Officers:

Martin Bicevskis, Sen Medical Officer (Occupational and Environmental Health)

Contact Details:

Ph 03 62 33 2898
martin.bicevskis@dhhs.tas.gov.au

Related documents or action plans:

Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act

Issue: Sustainable Development – Climate Change Part IV

Need Addressed (as identified in National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan):

Development of best practice policy which integrates sustainable development practice and environmental health practice and implementation of this policy.

Project:

It is now widely considered in the scientific community that the world has begun to warm as a result of human influence. Climate change, in turn, causes various environmental and ecological changes. Some of these changes (such as sea-level rise) will continue to respond to this century’s warming for many centuries. Climate change differs from many other environmental health problems because of its gradual onset, widespread rather than localised effects, and the fact that the most important effects will probably be indirect.

Contact Details:

Phn (02) 6289 8206
environhealth@health.gov.au