The final component of our work is to think carefully about circulation.

We value three forms of ‘impact.’

The first, and most important, for us is the commitment we have made to make the discourse on climate change and health circulate widely, publicly, across registers, and in different forms so it becomes part of everyday conversation and not just for conferences, meetings, universities, and journals.

The second is that we do wish to push the needle on the need to see climate change, health and vulnerable settlements together both analytically and in policy, programming, financing, and action. We therefore seek to publish in important academic journals, find a voice in policy gatherings, and reach local and national government in each of our cities and countries.

The third for us is to take the stories we get from communities back to them, and work with them to use these in the ways they wish, from marshalling them with local government or using them to make changes in their own lives that helps them adapt, cope and thrive.

For most of us in the project, the settlements we work in are those with which we have long-standing relationships that started before this project and will last long after. The ‘impact’ of this project will fold into this on-going relationship and take the many forms it does.