Urban Environmental Pollution
Creating Healthy, Liveable Cities
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People all over the world are migrating to cities in search of jobs and cultural advantages, especially in Asia. This has resulted in the formation of huge megapolitan areas and surrounding periurban environs. In China, a 40 million urban area is planned.
The effects of cities on people are not well-understood. Cities require huge amounts of energy, resulting in large quantities of waste products, causing unsustainable environments. Cities are sources of air, water and soil pollution. Light and noise pollution are now known to adversely affect urban people. The role of urban heat islands and air pollution, Pm 2.5 and ozone, on human health is beginning to emerge. Lack of green space may have psychological effects for urban dwellers.
We began to explore the nature of the urban environment and pollution on human health and well-being at UEP2010 in Boston in June of 2010. This very successful conference identified many areas of urban life that warranted further investigation. UEP2012 aims to pick up where UEP2010 left off and continue the exploration of the urban environment and how we can begin to create a healthy and liveable environment in cities.
Young Research Scientist Award Winners 2012
We had an excellent response to our Yong Research Scientific Award for the UEP conference in 2012. Since the quality was so high we decided to offer two places. The winners of the Awards are:
| Winner | Paper Title |
| Dr. Fatemeh Kardel Department of Bioscience Engineering University of Antwerp, Belgium |
Biomagnetic monitoring of intra-urban spatial variation of particulate matter |
| Dr. Tiziana Susca PhD obtained at Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy |
Life cycle assessment applied to the urban scale: Evaluation of the effect of the New York City increase in rooftop albedo on human health. |
Join us in Amsterdam to hear them presenting their research!
Topics List
- New information about urban environments and how they function
- Pollution problems and possible solutions
- Role of the built environment in alleviating heat islands
- Human health problems and solutions
- Role of vegetation in mitigating urban pollution and human health problems
- Innovative methods for alleviation of urban stress problems
A Special Issue of Environmental Pollution has been published with selected papers from the conference Urban Environmental Pollution 2010: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life, 20-23 June 2010, Boston, USA. This Special Issue is now freely available (Volume 159, Issues 8-9, pp. 1963-2210).
The other papers of UEP2010 are published in Procedia Environmental Sciences (Volume 4, Pages 1-336). Also freely available via SciVerse ScienceDirect.
