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4.1.2 Improving the quality of urban life outdoor spaces in the urban context, across Europe. By improving urban spaces it is possible to revitalise urban spaces and improve quality of life. This will be achieved having problem solvers (research institutes and municipalities’ technical representatives) working closely together with problem owners (users of open space and city representatives, i.e. municipalities). 1. To establish a series of mathematical models for evaluating thermal, visual and audible comfort conditions in urban spaces. Rather than a single model applicable throughout Europe, this model will take into account the most influential microclimatic parameters for each area, leading to slight variations of the same model for different climatic contexts. The relative importance of the thermal, visual and acoustic environment will also be identified. 2. To identify appropriate morphological parameters determining the microclimate of the area and the resulting comfort conditions. 3. To develop a methodology for mapping comfort conditions in the urban context 4. To develop design guidelines to target the development of open spaces in new areas as well as the improvement of existing situations of interventions to the existing urban fabric. The design guidelines will have the form of ‘best practice guides’ for municipalities and urban designers adding value to current EU policies. 5. To apply the model and proposed design guidelines at different open spaces to eight cities across Europe, at sixteen different study areas. 6. To implement the model and the respective design guidelines to the three different municipalities involved in the project, planning to develop their area. 7. To identify a series of indicators for evaluating socio-economic implications of development of outdoor spaces for the area, applicable across Europe Coordinator Nikolopoulou, Marialena (Dr) Tel: +302106603300 Department of Buildings Fax: +302106603301 Centre for Renewable Energy Sources E-Mail: mnikol@cres.gr Marathonos Avenue Km 19th http://alpha.cres.gr/ruros 190 09 Pikermi - Attiki Greece Participants Institute of Urban And Rural Sociology, Organisation: National Centre For Social Research, Messoghion Avenue 14-18, 115 27 Athens, Greece, Contact Person: Kovani, Eleni (Dr) Municipality of Alimos, Aristotelous Street 53, 17455 Athens, Greece, Contact Person: Vrinios, Christos (Mr) Department of Architecture The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Organisation: The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of The University of Cambridge Chaucer, Road 6, CB2 2EB Cambridge, United Kingdom, Contact Person: Steemers, Koen (Dr) Laboratory of Building Construction and Physics, Department of Civil Engineering - School of Technology, Organisation: Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis University Campus, 54006 Thessalonki, Greece, Contact Person: Chrissomalidou, Niobe (Dr) Municipality of Thermi, Papagou Street 29, 57001 Thermi, Greece, Contact Person: Stathis, Vassilis (Dr) Section D'architecture, Organisation: Ecole d'ingenieurs Et D'architectes De Fribourg, Boulevard De Perolles 80 Po Box 32, 1705 Fribourg, Switzerland, Contact Person: Compagnon, Raphael (Dr) Service De L'amenagement Direction De L'edilite, Organisation: Ville De Fribourg, Rue Joseph Piller 7, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, Contact Person: Egger, Maurice (Mr) School of Architecture, Organisation: University of Sheffield Western Bank, S10 2tn Sheffield, United Kingdom, Contact Person: Kang, Jian (Dr) Esbensen - Consulting Engineers, Vesterbrogade 124B, 1620 Koebenhavn V, Denmark, Contact Person: Kofoed, Niels-Ulrik (Mr) Dipartimento di Disegno Industriale e Tecnologia dell'architettura, Organisation: Politecnico of Milan, Via Edoardo Bonardi 3, 20133 Milano, Italy, Contact Person: Scudo, Gianni (Dr) Fachbereich Stadt- und Landschaftsplanung, Organisation: Universitaet Gesamthochschule Kassel, Henschelstrasse 2, 34127 Kasse, L Germany, Contact Person: Katzschner, Lutz (Dr)
4.1.2 Improving the quality of urban life SAPPHIRE (Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Regions of Europe ) Project Reference: EVK4-CT-2002-00089 Start Date: 01-10-2002 Contract Type: Shared Cost RTD End Date: 30-09-2005 Project URL: http://www.ges.bham.ac.uk/sapphire/ Duration: 36 months Problems to be solved Air pollution by both particulate matter (PM) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) presents a significant problem to EU citizens. This is due to their proven adverse impacts on human health, in terms of their role in the aetiology of inter alia lung cancer, along with respiratory and cardiovascular disease. There are also significant adverse impacts for the economy of the EU as a consequence of air pollutionrelated disease, owing to: • the additional burden placed on health services; and • the number of working days lost. Consequently, the EU and its member states are actively legislating for improvements in air quality and monitoring to verify progress in this regard, as failure to tackle this issue will negatively impact on the social well-being and economic competitiveness of the EU. An integral part of improving air quality is the identification (or apportionment) of the principal sources of pollutants, as so doing permits the most effective targeting of source control strategies. Currently, the methodology used for source apportionment of PM and PAH is somewhat disparate in nature, and is rarely accessible in a format that is both readily implementable and relevant to the local city authorities with responsibility for air quality management. As a result, there is a need to develop a harmonised approach to source apportionment of PM and PAH to meet the needs of local city authorities. Scientific Objectives The overall objective of SAPPHIRE is to develop and validate a readily transferable common pan- European methodological approach to source apportionment of atmospheric PM and PAH that will be utilised by city authorities. To do so, a series of campaigns monitoring air pollution at 2 locations in each of the following partner cities: Athens, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Oporto. Data from these campaigns will be used to develop and validate the source apportionment methodology. A technical report describing clearly the source apportionment protocol will be written, and a user friendly customised software package to assist in the data analysis required for source apportionment will be produced. To maximise exploitation of SAPPHIRE outputs, the local authorities of partner cities will critically appraise and review drafts of both the technical report and software package. Expected Impacts The principal output of SAPPHIRE will be a harmonised approach to source apportionment of atmospheric PM and PAH. City authorities will have access to a technical report and accompanying user friendly customised software package (with users manual) for data acquisition and interpretation. Use of the approach will allow the sources of atmospheric PM and PAH to be estimated. In turn this will permit development of appropriate control strategies aimed at reducing concentrations of PM and PAH, and allow the probable impact of the various options for control to be assessed. For example, the effect of reducing permitted vehicle or stack emissions, or of local traffic management schemes, or modifying industrial processes, could be predicted more reliably. Together with knowledge of the social and economic costs of air pollution, proposed control measures could be subjected to cost/benefit assessments. Coordinator Dr. Stuart Harrad, Division of Environmental Health & Tel: +44 121 414 7298 Management (DEHRM), University of Birmingham, Fax: +44 121 414 3078 Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK E-mail: s.j.harrad@bham.ac.uk Website: http://www.ges.bham.ac.uk/sapphire
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ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPME
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V. Abstracts of projects The projec
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