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Sefira Stakeholder Meeting Milano, 20 Novembre 2014: video e report della giornata di lavoro

By ⋅ 21 November 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Tweet Il 20 Novembre, presso la sala Congressi del CNR di Milano si è svolto l’incontro nazionale dei portatori di interesse del progetto FP7 Sefira: “Qualità dell’aria e cambiamento climatico: le sfide di fronte a noi”   E’ possibile scaricare cliccando sul link il PDF delle presentazioni di ogni intervento.   -Benvenuto e presentazione del […]

Air pollution and environmental justice – a case from Minnesota (USA)

By ⋅ 18 April 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Tweet A recent study[1] conducted by University of Minnesota (USA) offers an interesting overview on the relationship between exposure to air pollution and social inequalities. Researchers from department of civil engineering calculated the difference of ethnic groups’ exposure to Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) in United States. The results clearly show a dependence between ethnic group belonging […]

First SEFIRA Report and Policy Brief released

By ⋅ 4 April 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Tweet The Sefira Project staff has now published the first Integrated Multidisciplinary Report and Policy Brief. The main topic is a review of the recent Clean Air Package released by the European Commission on 18 December 2013 that will serve as roadmap for Air Quality Policy review of the European Community. During this first period […]

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Socio Economic implications For Individual Responses to Air Pollution policies in EU +27

SEFIRA has the objective of creating a European coordination of transdisciplinary scientific and socio-economic resources in order to support the review and implementation of air quality legislation by the European Commission (EC) led by DG Environment. SEFIRA will coordinate some of the best scientific and socio-economic resources and will review air quality policies and legislation at the interface between environmental, economic and social sciences in order to achieve a deeper understanding of these complex issues. The main fields involved in the action will be atmospheric sciences, environmental and legal sociology, anthropology, geography and economics.