Description du projet
Facteurs transversaux pour des infrastructures bleues saines
Une grande partie de la population européenne réside dans des villes situées près des rivières et des côtes. Ces régions sont confrontées à des défis croissants qui sont liés à la pollution ainsi qu’au changement climatique. Ces régions peuvent-elles réellement favoriser le bien-être? Le projet BlueHealth, financé par l’UE, explorera cette possibilité. En collaborant avec des partenaires communautaires, des institutions du secteur privé et des décideurs politiques dans les domaines de la santé, du climat et de l’environnement, la recherche vise à identifier les espaces bleus urbains qui peuvent avoir le plus grand effet positif sur la santé des citoyens et sur l’environnement. Cette enquête évaluera les coûts, les risques et les avantages des interventions et des initiatives politiques, tout en mettant en évidence les approches réussies et les obstacles à la promotion de solutions durables. En fin de compte, l’objectif est d’encourager l’activité physique et le rafraîchissement urbain, et de diffuser largement les stratégies efficaces.
Objectif
The BlueHealth Consortium brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts reaching across all 28 European Union countries. The proposed 5 year BlueHealth Project takes an international, interdisciplinary and multi-sector approach to health promotion and disease prevention by investigating the relationship between the EU’s ‘blue infrastructure’ and the health and well-being of its citizens. Blue infrastructure refers to the network of natural and man-made aquatic environments providing a range of multi-sectorial services (e.g. transportation, fresh water provision). There has been no systematic attempt to detail the potential impacts of our blue infrastructure on health promotion and disease prevention, nor to develop guidelines on how health should be considered when developing blue infrastructure interventions, particularly across sectors. BlueHealth will address this gap.
The majority of Europeans live in cities built on inland waterways, lakes, or the coasts. BlueHealth will focus on urban blue infrastructures. The EU’s blue infrastructure offers significant health and well-being related opportunities and benefits (eg urban cooling, recreation), but also challenges and stressors (eg flooding, microbial/chemical pollution). BlueHealth will investigate these trade-offs, with the aims of quantifying the impacts on population health and well-being of interventions and policy initiatives connected to blue infrastructure, and identifying success factors and obstacles of inter-sectorial collaborations. Assessments of health and environment benefits, risks and costs will improve our understanding of the role of urban blue infrastructures on across-sector health promotion and disease prevention. The Partners have collaborations across the Environment, Health, and Climate sectors, and extensive experience with inter-institutional, multi-sectorial, interdisciplinary research programmes employing innovation, stakeholder engagement, dissemination, and policy impact.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
EX4 4QJ Exeter
Royaume-Uni