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Public awareness and efforts to improve air quality in Europe
Air pollution is the single largest environmental risk to the health of the Europeans and is receiving significant attention in the public space. It is comprehensively regulated in the EU, addressing air pollutants concentrations, as well as emissions from numerous sources. The legislation requires also for the authorities to inform the public.
In some cases, the authorities are struggling to implement measures to improve air quality and are met with barriers in the form of public opinion, for example, in cities. In other cases, citizens are taking action with the aim of pushing the authorities to improve air quality.
This report aims to reflect on what air quality information authorities provide and how the public perceives air quality and the information provided. It also looks on actions civil society takes towards improvements of air quality and the role of public awareness and understanding.
ETC/ATNI
2021
2017
Public Perception of Urban Air Quality Using Volunteered Geographic Information Services
Investigating perceived air quality (AQ) in urban areas is a rather new topic of interest. Papers presenting results from studies on perception of AQ have thus far focused on the individual characteristics leading to a certain AQ perception or have compared personal perception with on-site measurements. Here we present a novel approach, namely applying volunteered geographic information (VGI) technologies in urban AQ monitoring. We present two smartphone applications that have been developed and applied in two EU projects (FP7 CITI-SENSE and H2020 hackAIR) to obtain citizens’ perception of AQ. We focus on observations reported through the smartphone apps for the greater Oslo area in Norway. In order to evaluate whether the reports on perceived AQ contain information about the actual spatial patterns of AQ, we carried out a comparison of the perception data against the output from the high-resolution urban AQ model EPISODE. The results indicate an association between modelled annual average pollutant concentrations and the provided perception reports. This demonstrates that the spatial patterns of perceived AQ are not entirely random but follow to some extent what would be expected due to proximity of emission sources and transport. This information shows that VGI about citizens’ perception of AQ has the potential to identify areas with low environmental quality for urban development.
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Qatar air quality modelling workshop. Outcomes and recommendations. NILU OR
NILU arrangerte et 4-dagers seminar (¿Luftkvalitetsmodellering¿) 27.-30.mai 2013 for helsemyndighetene i Qatar (SCH). Seminaret ble finansiert av Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO). Målene for seminaret var å gi nødvendig opplæring for eksperter i Qatar om de grunnleggende prinsippene for modellering, ulike tilgjengelige verktøy og applikasjoner for luftkvalitetsmodellering. Denne informasjonen vil da gi de ansvarlige myndigheter en verdifull innføring i å forstå hvordan de kan bygge opp sitt eget modelleringsprogram for luftkvalitet og kompetanse på dette feltet.
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