Projektbeschreibung
Unterstützung urbaner Wasser-Ökosysteme
Wasser-Ökosysteme bieten vielfältige Lebensräume und unterstützen die biologische Vielfalt und ökologische Leistungen, die für das Leben auf der Erde unerlässlich sind. Allerdings werden Wasser-Ökosysteme in Städten häufig durch Müll, Lärm und andere Faktoren belastet. Sie verlieren an Raum und ihre Ökosysteme sind bedroht, was zu einer Verschlechterung der Gesundheitsbedingungen für Menschen, Tiere und Pflanzen führt. In diesem Zusammenhang wird das EU-finanzierte Projekt OneAquaHealth die Bedeutung dieser Ökosysteme für die geistige und körperliche Gesundheit des Menschen aufzeigen und gleichzeitig ein neuartiges KI-basiertes Umweltüberwachungssystem zur Beobachtung und zum Schutz dieser Orte bereitstellen.
Ziel
Aquatic urban ecosystems are extremely relevant connectors between people, animals and plants and provide a valuable resource to liaise health and environmental observations with a potential impact on prediction and prevention. In urbanized areas, aquatic ecosystems constitute ecological corridors between fragmented natural areas supporting a wide biodiversity and variety of ecosystem services, improving the sustainability of cities. Yet, these ecosystems are often degraded by lack of space, cuts of riparian vegetation, artificialization of the channels, impervious areas in the margins, water pollution, noise, excessive lights, among others. This degradation can lead to numerous disservices to human populations, and increase the probability of the emergence of pathogens, lower disease resistance of wildlife and humans, increasing the probability of disease severity and diseases associated with reduced physical activity and permanence in stressful environments found in cities.
In view of this, OneAquaHealth aims to demonstrate that the health of freshwater ecosystems and human health and wellbeing in urban contexts are highly interconnected as improving one results in the improvement of the other, reestablishing the balance between nature and humans. To this aim, OneAquaHealth will promote environmental monitoring of early warning indicators that can assess that balance. It will provide decision-makers with a AI-based Environmental Surveillance System able to support adequate and timely decisions and providing effective recovery measures of aquatic ecosystems health (and consequently human health) adequate for different scenarios, including climate changes. OneAquaHealth will involve all relevant stakeholders in the process raising their awareness to the importance of urban streams and rivers and supporting them with adequate digital tools to guarantee environmental monitoring beyond the project duration.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung
HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsKoordinator
3004-531 Coimbra
Portugal