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The importance of protecting human health in the EU climate policies
As anthropogenic climate change continues to escalate, its detrimental efects on human health are becoming pronounced, demanding urgent transformative actions from European policymakers. This policy brief underscores the importance of protecting human health in the EU climate change policies. As the European Climate-Health Cluster, comprising six pioneering research projects, we call for increased engagement of...
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Author(s): European Climate-Health Cluster
The development of a Gender, Inclusion and Diversity Framework for inclusive Nature-based Solutions in cities
Evidence consistently shows that the benefits Nature-based Solutions generate are determined
by several individual characteristics such as gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity and disability. As a result, Nature-based Solutions can perpetuate existing inequalities and even create new inequalities partly because diverse minority and marginalized people are underrepresented in the process of designing and implementing...
Publication Date: 29 Feb 2024
Author(s): Ben Delbaere, Evelise Pereira Barboza, Evelien Van Rafelghem, Kalyn Potter ,Eilish McCabe, Áine McBeth, Shreya Utkarsh, Kassia Rudd, Maria J. Fernandez de Osso Fuentes, Adriana Duarte, Julia Gäckle and Hans Keune
Revealing the determinants of gender inequality in urban cycling with large-scale data
Cycling uptake has gone up, but women still cycle much less than men. What role does the urban environment play in this gender-cycling gap? Check out our new study on EPJ Data Science.
Publication Date: 18 Apr 2023
Author(s): Alice Battiston, Ludovico Napoli , Paolo Bajardi , André Panisson , Alan Perotti, Michael Szell and Rossano Schifanella
Natural environments, psychosocial health, and health behaviors in a crisis – A scoping review of the literature in the COVID-19 context
The COVID-19 outbreak led to major restrictions globally, affecting people’s psychosocial health and their health behaviors. Thus, the purpose of this scoping review was to summarize the available research regarding nature and health in the COVID-19 context. Overall, the findings indicate that nature may mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on psychological health and physical activity. Through a systematic thematic...
Publication Date: 13 Apr 2023
Cooling cities through urban green infrastructure: a health impact assessment of European cities
“We already know that high temperatures in urban environments are associated with negative health outcomes, such as cardiorespiratory failure, hospital admission, and premature death. This study is the largest of its kind, and the first to specifically look at premature mortality caused by higher temperatures in cities and the number of deaths that could be prevented by increasing tree cover,” says lead author, Tamar...
Publication Date: 31 Jan 2023
Author(s): Tamara Iungman, MPH, Marta Cirach, MSc, Federica Marando, PhD, Evelise Pereira Barboza, MPH, Sasha Khomenko, MSc, Pierre Masselot, PhD, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, MSc, Natalie Mueller, PhD, Antonio Gasparrini, PhD, José Urquiza, PhD, Mehdi Heris, PhD, M
