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AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION MITIGATION THROUGH INTEGRATED, SOCIETY-CENTRED ACTIONS (ATMOPOLIS)

Air and noise pollution in Europe exceed safe limits, impacting public health, especially vulnerable groups. Reducing pollution improves health and lowers carbon emissions. Effective solutions require collaboration between cities and citizens. The EU-funded ATMOPOLIS project aims to identify effective solutions and support both top-down (city/region) and bottom-up (community/individual) actions. It will analyse long-term exposure to pollution, particularly for vulnerable groups, linking it to their perceptions and behaviours, and model population data on air pollution and carbon emissions in participating cities. New metrics for noise pollution will be developed using community data. The project will develop a decision-making tool to support policy actions. It will also leverage digital platforms to encourage community involvement.

Goal

ATMOPOLIS will:

Assess time-integrated monitored air and noise pollution exposure for specific individual groups, linked to their perceptions, culture, and behavior through personal narratives.
Model high-resolution population air pollution and carbon emissions (EU Mission and Green City Accord cities) and derive novel metrics of population noise pollution from community data and models (ATMOPOLIS partner cities) under existing and mitigation scenarios.
Evaluate health and wellbeing impacts of exposure under these scenarios, including for vulnerable groups, and identify the social determinants that increase risk.
Develop an evidence-driven integrated decision-making tool that identifies optimal cost-effective top-down policy actions by cities; and use persuasive design approaches to leverage emerging digital pollution platforms to support bottom-up change and empowerment.
Using system dynamics models and the integrated tool as a framework, co-create with cities informed policy pathways to meet zero pollution and carbon neutrality goals and improve population health and wellbeing for all.