Descrizione del progetto
Come le città influenzano la salute umana
In Europa, le città ospitano oltre il 70 % della popolazione. Sebbene le aree urbane promuovano l’innovazione e la creazione di ricchezza, sono anche una fonte dominante di inquinamento, malattie e mortalità. Il progetto UBDPOLICY, finanziato dall’UE, migliorerà la valutazione dell’impatto sulla salute e dei costi e benefici socioeconomici dei fattori di stress ambientale, farà progredire gli approcci metodologici e ne promuoverà l’accettazione come buone pratiche ordinarie per le aree urbane. L’obiettivo è rafforzare la definizione di politiche basate su dati concreti a livello cittadino, nazionale e comunitario. Il progetto si concentrerà su quasi 1 000 città e sui fattori di stress ambientale, tra cui l’inquinamento atmosferico, il rumore, le temperature estreme, la mancanza di spazi verdi e l’attività fisica, esaminando anche gli effetti del genere e della disuguaglianza nelle stime di impatto.
Obiettivo
In Europe, more than 70% of the population lives in urban areas. Cities have long been known to be society’s predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also a main source of pollution, disease and mortality, which is to some extent linked to suboptimal urban and transport planning practices. The proposed work aims to improve the estimation of health impacts and socio-economic costs and/or benefits of environmental stressors, advance methodological approaches and foster their acceptance as common good practice for urban areas, to help strengthen evidence-based policy making at city, national and EU level. We will focus on nearly 1000 cities and environmental stressors including air pollution, noise, temperature/heat and lack of green space but we will also include physical activity as a main determinant of health and examine the effects of gender and inequality in the impact estimations. We aim to produce a system that will provide updates every 3 years to be able to monitor progress. It will extensively involve stakeholders and conduct knowledge translation. We will use transdisciplinary and systemic approaches bringing together a team of, amongst others, experts and practitioners in urban and transport planning, environment and public health, economics, retail and business, education sector, policy analysis, knowledge translation and involve citizens and NGOs.
Campo scientifico
- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- social sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planning
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
08036 Barcelona
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