Descripción del proyecto
Factores transversales para unas infraestructuras azules sanas
Gran parte de la población europea reside en ciudades situadas cerca de ríos y costas, que son zonas que se enfrentan a crecientes retos derivados de la contaminación y el cambio climático. No obstante, ¿podrían estas regiones fomentar de verdad el bienestar? En el proyecto BlueHealth, financiado con fondos europeos, se explorará esta posibilidad. Mediante la colaboración con socios comunitarios, instituciones del sector privado y responsables políticos de los ámbitos de la salud, el clima y el medio ambiente, la investigación pretende identificar los espacios azules urbanos que pueden tener el mayor efecto positivo en la salud de los ciudadanos y el medio ambiente. En esta investigación se evaluarán los costes, riesgos y beneficios de las intervenciones e iniciativas políticas, al tiempo que se destacarán los enfoques que han tenido éxito y los obstáculos para fomentar soluciones sostenibles. En última instancia, el objetivo es fomentar la actividad física, la refrigeración urbana y difundir ampliamente las estrategias que resulten eficaces.
Objetivo
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.
Ámbito científico
- 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
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-PHC-2015-two-stage
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
EX4 4QJ Exeter
Reino Unido