ATMOPOLIS

🍃Pollution is not just environmental: it’s social. At ATMOPOLIS, we integrate environmental and social sciences to understand how citizens experience pollution in their daily lives. This knowledge is essential to designing effective solutions that improve the quality of life across European cities.💫

🤰 Air pollution exposure during pregnancy combined with psychological stress, may alter newborn gut microbiota and influence early brain development. This provides valuable evidence to support public health interventions.👉Read all the insights of it: doi.org/qspn

Welcome to @uab.cat ! 🎉

Researchers from the Department of Geography and @icta-uab.bsky.social have joined the project and are already working on analysing public perception of pollution using participatory methods like photovoice 📸

Great to have you on board!✨

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🫂🌳In Cambodia, direct grants are motivating indigenous climate leadership: protecting forests, securing land, and strengthening livelihoods based on local knowledge and community decision-making, proving that direct access to fair climate financing does work.

Learn more here 🔗

☯️ATMOPOLIS integrates environmental sciences and social sciences to understand how exposure to atmospheric and noise pollution affects European citizens.
🌱🏢The goal of the project is to understand the complexity of urban systems and what can be done by citizens and the government.🤝

Household air pollution WHO fact sheet on indoor air pollution: includes key facts, definition, impact on health, impact on health equity, WHO response.

😶‍🌫️ Domestic pollution is the great unknown, however each year 2.9 M people die prematurely from illnesses attributable to it.

🌱 To fight it, the #WHO created a Health and Energy Action Platform that works to provide universal access to sustainable energy in homes.

Check it out 🔗 shorturl.at/EtUSr

🎉We are thrilled to announce #Tampere Univesity and Jonathan Taylor as our project coordinator!

🔬He is the leader of the Urban Physics Research Group in the Department of Civil Engineering, which aims to support the transition to #SustainableCities.

We couldn’t have a better coordinator!✨

🌍 The project is a joint effort of 14 partners: Tampere University, @ucl.ac.uk, @lshtm.bsky.social, @iiasa.ac.at, MET Norway, @ucddublin.bsky.social, @uab.cat, @scienseed.com, City of Lodz, GLA, Institute for Public Health Sarajevo Canton, City of Podgorica and Global Action Plan.

🏙️ The #EU-funded project #ATMOPOLIS, an innovative study to understand air & noise #pollution from a social perspective, kicked off last month.

🎯The aim is to develop an integrated tool to evaluate the health & climate impacts of mitigation policies.

👉https://shorturl.at/ZO9bu