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Public health impacts of city policies to reduce climate change: findings from the URGENCHE EU-China project

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العنوان: Public health impacts of city policies to reduce climate change: findings from the URGENCHE EU-China project
المؤلفون: Sabel, Clive E, Hiscock, Rosemary, Asikainen, Arja, Bi, Jun, Depledge, Mike, van den Elshout, Sef, Friedrich, Rainer, Huang, Ganlin, Hurley, Fintan, Jantunen, Matti, Karakitsios, Spyros P, Keuken, Menno, Kingham, Simon, Kontoroupis, Periklis, Kuenzli, Nino, Liu, Miaomiao, Martuzzi, Marco, Morton, Katie, Mudu, Pierpaolo, Niittynen, Marjo, Perez, Laura, Sarigiannis, Denis, Stahl-Timmins, Will, Tobollik, Myriam, Tuomisto, Jouni, Willers, Saskia
المصدر: Environmental Health
Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, 15, 1-17
Sabel, C E, Hiscock, R, Asikainen, A, Bi, J, Depledge, M, Van Den Elshout, S, Friedrich, R, Huang, G, Hurley, F, Jantunen, M, Karakitsios, S P, Keuken, M, Kingham, S, Kontoroupis, P, Kuenzli, N, Liu, M, Martuzzi, M, Morton, K, Mudu, P, Niittynen, M, Perez, L, Sarigiannis, D, Stahl-timmins, W, Tobollik, M, Tuomisto, J & Willers, S 2016, ' Public health impacts of city policies to reduce climate change : Findings from the URGENCHE EU-China project ', Environmental Health, vol. 15, no. 1, S25 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0097-0Test
Sabel, C E, Hiscock, R, Asikainen, A, Bi, J, Depledge, M, van den Elshout, S, Friedrich, R, Huang, G, Hurley, F, Jantunen, M, Karakitsios, S P, Keuken, M, Kingham, S, Kontoroupis, P, Kuenzli, N, Liu, M, Martuzzi, M, Morton, K, Mudu, P, Niittynen, M, Perez, L, Sarigiannis, D, Stahl-Timmins, W, Tobollik, M, Tuomisto, J & Willers, S 2016, ' Public health impacts of city policies to reduce climate change : Findings from the URGENCHE EU-China project ', Environmental Health, vol. 15 Suppl 1, pp. 25 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0097-0Test
بيانات النشر: Springer Nature
مصطلحات موضوعية: Greenhouse Effect, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Natural resource economics, Urban Mobility & Environment, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Air pollution, Greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, 010501 environmental sciences, medicine.disease_cause, 01 natural sciences, Energy policy, SDG 13 - Climate Action, Longitudinal Studies, Buildings, Greenhouse effect, media_common, Air Pollutants, Energy, Wellbeing, Health Policy, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, Europe, Health, Gases, Public Health, Environment & Sustainability, medicine.medical_specialty, China, Climate Change, Transport, Urbanisation, Environment, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Urbanization, Environmental health, medicine, media_common.cataloged_instance, Humans, Urban, European Union, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, European union, Cities, Health policy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Public health, Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cross-Sectional Studies, Greenhouse gas, SUMS - Sustainable Urban Mobility and Safety, Government Regulation, Business, ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
الوصف: Background Climate change is a global threat to health and wellbeing. Here we provide findings of an international research project investigating the health and wellbeing impacts of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in urban environments. Methods Five European and two Chinese city authorities and partner academic organisations formed the project consortium. The methodology involved modelling the impact of adopted urban climate-change mitigation transport, buildings and energy policy scenarios, usually for the year 2020 and comparing them with business as usual (BAU) scenarios (where policies had not been adopted). Carbon dioxide emissions, health impacting exposures (air pollution, noise and physical activity), health (cardiovascular, respiratory, cancer and leukaemia) and wellbeing (including noise related wellbeing, overall wellbeing, economic wellbeing and inequalities) were modelled. The scenarios were developed from corresponding known levels in 2010 and pre-existing exposure response functions. Additionally there were literature reviews, three longitudinal observational studies and two cross sectional surveys. Results There are four key findings. Firstly introduction of electric cars may confer some small health benefits but it would be unwise for a city to invest in electric vehicles unless their power generation fuel mix generates fewer emissions than petrol and diesel. Second, adopting policies to reduce private car use may have benefits for carbon dioxide reduction and positive health impacts through reduced noise and increased physical activity. Third, the benefits of carbon dioxide reduction from increasing housing efficiency are likely to be minor and co-benefits for health and wellbeing are dependent on good air exchange. Fourthly, although heating dwellings by in-home biomass burning may reduce carbon dioxide emissions, consequences for health and wellbeing were negative with the technology in use in the cities studied. Conclusions The climate-change reduction policies reduced CO2 emissions (the most common greenhouse gas) from cities but impact on global emissions of CO2 would be more limited due to some displacement of emissions. The health and wellbeing impacts varied and were often limited reflecting existing relatively high quality of life and environmental standards in most of the participating cities; the greatest potential for future health benefit occurs in less developed or developing countries. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12940-016-0097-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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اللغة: English
تدمد: 1476-069X
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-016-0097-0
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حقوق: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....1e491ab44f5c4de0681887e86a7b455d
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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تدمد:1476069X
DOI:10.1186/s12940-016-0097-0