We need research to articulate the health and environmental costs and benefits of complex policy interventions that influence air and soundscape quality. This includes the environmental impacts and human health related ones.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
In 2019 the Public Health of England estimated that, in the UK, between 28,000 and 36,000 deaths a year can be attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution. However, we still do not know what role particulate matter...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: Cranfield University
The project addresses the importance of non-exhaust sources, pollutant mixtures, and biological mechanisms for effects from different sound sources.
The focus on particulate matter (PM2.5) mass reductions in UK air quality policy reflects the metrics measured for regulatory compliance. Epidemiological approaches have struggled to untangle the relative hazard of PM co...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project focuses on identifying the most hazardous fractions of indoor and outdoor air pollution and elucidating the causal pathways contributing to disease development and exacerbation.
To assess the impact of pollution on personal health in outdoor/indoor urban environments, we will develop a physics-based multi-scale approach across biological length scales from the cell, lung, person (surrounded by g...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project develops a multi-scale approach to assess the impact of pollution on personal health in outdoor/indoor urban environments and examines the biophysical components of pollutants that determine their cellular fate and potential for cell and tissue damage.