This study highlights how the collective intelligence of experts from diverse disciplines can generate participatory system mapping and how using systems mapping can help experts interested in complex public health problems to take a broader view of the complex adaptive system for preventive health planning.

This research aims to identify how the eight councils have addressed climate risk and resilience, and to determine the barrier and enablers to planning, implementing, and evaluating related strategies across the Western Sydney region.

Built environment interventions must move beyond simple ecological sustainability to encouraging ways of life that are healthy for both humans and the planet. There are key challenges facing this new approach.