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TURNS seed event: Promoting healthier urban environments: Towards pollution free cities (30 October 2024)

Motor highway with cars.

The Urban Physics Group of Tampere University organizes an afternoon seminar about urban pollution and how it could be tackled on 30 October 2024 in Hervanta, Tampere. The event is free of charge. Read more and sign up to the event below. Welcome!

Promoting healthier urban environments: towards pollution free cities 

Pollution is one of the leading causes of premature mortality worldwide. In the EU, particulate air pollution is estimated to cause around 238,000 deaths per year, while noise pollution is estimated to cause around 11,000 deaths per year. Both types of pollution cause ill health, with diseases relating to exposure causing suffering and significant healthcare costs. Removing or reducing some of the key emissions sources of noise and air pollution (for example road traffic and industry) will also have significant co-benefits for mitigating climate change.
In this seminar, experts from across Europe will present their research on the sources, health consequences, and social dimensions of pollution exposures. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for drinks and networking with the visiting researchers.
The seminar is aimed for everyone interested in urban pollution. The event is supported with funding from TURNS Tampere Urban Research Network for Sustainability and STUE Sustainable Transitions of Urban Environments.

Programme

15:00 – Welcome words 

Jonathon Taylor, Associate Professor in Urban Physics, Tampere University 

15:15 – Tracking Progress on the Health Effects of Climate Change

Shih-Che Hsu, Research Fellow in Building Stock and Indoor Air Quality Modelling, Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources, UCL, UK

15:35 – Air Pollution and Health

James Milner, Associate Professor in Climate Change, Environment & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health, London, UK 

15:55 – Modelling Transportation Noise and Assessing the Risk to Human Health

Jon-Paul Faulkner, Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland 

16:15 – Social Determinants of Health

Salla Atkins, Associate Professor in the Global Health and Social Policy group, Tampere University, Finland 

16:35 – TBD 

16:55 – Community-based Monitoring of Indoor Air Pollution

Anna-Kaisa Viitanen, Senior Research Associate, Tampere University, Finland 

17:15 – Questions and Discussion

17:30 – 18:30 – Drinks and Reception

 

Read more: Promoting healthier urban environments: towards pollution free cities 

Please, sign up to the event here: Registration

For inquiries, please contact Anna-Kaisa Viitanen (anna-kaisa.viitanen@tuni.fi)