Air quality & urban sustainability: Designing cities for human health and the environment
Event details
| Date | 09.06.2011 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Julian MARSHALL, University of Minnesota, USA |
| Location |
GR C0 01
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
For the first time in history, more than half of the global population lives in cities. Nearly all population growth this century is projected to occur in urban areas. This lecture will focus on urban air pollution to discuss steps we can take to ensure that the cities of tomorrow will be clean and healthy places to live. The talk will discuss three areas of current research: (1) approaches for incorporating health and environmental justice into air quality management, (2) satellite-based evidence on the interplay between urban form and air quality, and (3) neighborhood pedestrian-friendliness and air pollution. Dr. Marshall is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering and McKnight Land-Grant Professor of Urban Sustainability Engineering at University of Minnesota, USA. During 2010-2011, he is a visiting researcher at the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), in Barcelona, Spain.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Fernando Porte-Agel (WIRE) and Nikolas Geroliminis (LUTS)