Climate change impacts environmental health, animal health and -directly or indirectly- human health. Urban scenarios, as critical environments in this respect, require this issue to be tackled urgently.
And, to this end, the One Health concept provides a differentiating component. Applied to urban planning and design, it reveals life quality-and environment improvement-related issues and perspectives which is essential to consider in view of the risks stemming from global warming.
This paper confirms this fact with a critical review of problems and of the applicability of the concept. Beyond the barriers and ambiguities that may be associated with it, the potential of this approach lies in the overriding attention it pays to the relationships and, especially, the interdependencies among human health, animal health and environmental health in a context of complexity. In this regard, its value for moving from endogamic perspectives to wider, interdisciplinary positions to tackle climate change-related health issues in the medium and long terms is also evident.
