Publications

​2026
  • Jordan M, Black D (2026) Socio-economic valuation in UK urban development through the lens of power. Discover Cities. [Pending Submission]
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  • Black D, Chang M, Kirton-Darling E (2026) Handbook of Health Impact Assessment. Book Chapter: Health Impact Assessment in urban development in the United Kingdom: current and future pathways through complex systems of policy, law and practice. Routledge. [Publishing in Summer 2026]
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  • Black D, Gopsill J, Rosenberg G, Silvonen T, Kukreja A, Hicks B (2026)  Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to assess changes in transdisciplinary understandings across a large research consortium. PLOS Sustainability & Transformation [Submitted]

2025
  • Black D et al (2025) TRUUD Impact Report. Available from: https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/e/1256/files/2025/07/TRUUD-Impact-Report-July-2025.pdf 
 
  • Lynch H, Holdroyd I Birley M, Black D, Cave B, Douglas M, Ekermawi R, Green L, Haigh F, Harris-Roxas B, O'Mullane M, Purdy J, Stevenson A, Vohra S, Ford J (2025) Health Impact Assessments should be mandatory for all relevant government policies. Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105436

  • Black D and Bates G (2025) Stakeholder analysis in urban-planetary health research: The Key Group Approach. Front. Public Health. Planetary Health Challenges: Interventions for Effective Knowledge Mobilization for Policy- And Decision-Makers and Science Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1629249 
 
  • Jack G Martin, Daniel Black, John Coggon, How societal impact is understood and approached across a newly formed community of researchers with an ambitious ‘health of the public’ agenda, Research Evaluation, Volume 34, 2025, rvaf029, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf029
 
  • Bates G, Black D, Ayres S, Bondy K, Carhart N, Kidger J (2025) Identifying intervention areas in the urban development system to prevent non-communicable diseases. PLOS Sustainability & Transformation. ​https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000176
 
  • Turnbull, S.L., Jordan, M., Linnett, R.J. et al. (2025) Development and optimisation of an intervention to increase the intention to act on health and health equity within the private sector of urban development: an evidence, theory and Person-Based Approach. BMC Public Health 25, 1564 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22559-w  
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  • Linnett, R. J., Bondy, K., Jordan, M., Black, D., & Turnbull, S. L. (2025) Development and evaluation of an intervention designed to increase the prioritisation of health by professionals working in the private sector of urban development: study protocol. Cities & Health, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2447120 
     
2024​
  • Lynch, H., Holyroyd, I., Black, D., Cave, B., Harris-Roxas, B., Haigh, F., O’Mullane, M., Stevenson, A., Vohra, S. & Ford, J (2024) Making Health in All Policies a reality: A call for Health Impact Assessments across government to improve health and address health inequalities. London: Health Equity Evidence Centre.
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  • Black D, Bates G, Gibson A, Pain K, Rosenberg G, White J (2024) What is “good” co-production in the context of planetary health research? Earth Systems Governance Journal. Exploring 'Planetary Health' in the Context of Earth Systems Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100229 
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  • Black D, Bates G, Callway R, Pain K, Kirton-Darling E (2024) Short-termism in urban development: the commercial determinants of planetary health. Earth Systems Governance Journal. Special Issue: Exploring 'Planetary Health' in the Context of Earth Systems Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100220 
 
2023
  • Black, D., Bates, G., Ayres, S. et al. Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection. Sustain Sci (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01344-x 
 
  • Black D, Wei T, Eaton E, Hunt A, Carey J, Schmutz U, He B and Roderick I (2023) Testing food waste reduction targets: integrating transition scenarios with macro-valuation in an urban living lab. Sustainability 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15076004
 
  • Black, D.; Charlesworth, S.; Dal Poz, M.E.; Francisco, E.C.; Paytan, A.; Roderick, I.; von Wirth, T.; Winter, K. Comparing Societal Impact Planning and Evaluation Approaches across Four Urban Living Labs (in Food-Energy-Water Systems). Sustainability 2023, 15, 5387. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065387
 
  • Eaton E, Hunt A, Black D (2023) Developing and testing an environmental economic approach to the valuation and application of urban health externalities. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1070200
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  • Daniel Black and Ed Kirton-Darling (June 2023) Submission to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on proposals for Environmental Outcome Reports. EOR Consultation Response. Available from: https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/e/1256/files/2023/06/EOR-Consultation-Response_DB-and-EKD_9-6-23.pdf
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2022  
  • Black D, Ayres S, Bondy K et al. Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]. Wellcome Open Res 2022, 6:30 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16382.2) 

2021
  • Black D, Pilkington P, Williams B, Ige J, Prestwood E, Scally G (2021) Overcoming Systemic Barriers Preventing Healthy Urban Development in the UK: Main Findings from Interviewing Senior Decision-Makers During a 3-Year Planetary Health Pilot. Journal of Urban Health. Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00537-y
   
  • Scally, G, Black D, Pilkington P, Williams B, Ige J, Prestwood E (2021) The Application of ‘Elite Interviewing’ Methodology in Transdisciplinary Research: a Record of Process and Lessons Learned during a 3-Year Pilot in Urban Planetary Health Research. Journal of Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00542-1
 
  • Daniel Black, Geoff Bates, Andy Gibson, Eli Hatleskog, Eleonora Fichera, Jenny Hatchard, Hasan Md Nazmul, Ges Rosenberg, Charles Larkin, Rachel Brierley, Judi Kidger, Krista Bondy, Matt Hickman, Kathy Pain, Ben Hicks, Gabriel Scally, Arpana Verma, Neil Carhart, Paul Pilkington, Alistair Hunt & Paddy Ireland (2021) Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?, Cities & Health, 5:sup1, S93-S96, DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480

2020 ​
  • Ige-Elegbede, J., Pilkington, P., Orme, J., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Black, D. and Carmichael, L., (2020) Designing healthier neighbourhoods: a systematic review of the impact of the neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing. Cities & Health, pp.1-16. Available from:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2020.1799173
 
  • Pain, K., Shi, S., Black, D., Blower, B., Grimmond, S., Hunt, A., Milcheva, S. Crawford, B., Dale, N., Doolin, S., Manna, S. Real estate investment and urban density: Exploring the PUR territorial governance agenda using a topological lens, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1837665

​2018
  • Ige, J., Pilkington, P., Orme, J., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Black, D.,Carmichael, L. and Scally, G. (2019) The relationship between buildings and health: a systematic review. Journal of Public Health, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages e121–e132, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy138​
 
  • Black, D., Scally, G., Orme, J., Hunt, A., Pilkington, P., Lawrence, R., and Ebi, K. (2018) Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development: Reflections on the Operationalisation of a Trans-disciplinary Case Study. Global Challenges, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201700103

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