Project scope
The AIR-AWARE project will build a pilot air quality monitoring and forecasting system, which will assess the impact on people’s health, and will warn the responsible institutions, in correlation with land-use municipal planning on short, medium and long term in Bucharest area[...]
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The Project Objectives
1. To build a pilot air quality monitoring and forecasting system enabling multi-impact surveillance, spatial-temporal integrated , and land-use municipal determinist planning, to ensure sustainable development of the rapidly expansive urban area;[...]
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The life quality of about 97% of European citizens which are living in urban areas is directly influenced by the urban environment state, these ones being exposed at pollution levels which exceed the qualitative objectives established for the EU. The high quality of the urban environment contributes at achieving the priority established through the new Strategy from Lisbon, namely: "to make Europe a place more attractive to work and to invest". The attractiveness of the European cities will raise their potential for development and create new jobs and, from this reason, cities represent a key importance for the implementation of the Lisbon Agenda[...]
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Bucharest is the capital and the biggest city in Romania as area and population (2 millions citizens, the urban area covering a 228 sqm area). Bucharest is the single city in Romania with metropolitan area status[...]
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Project Beneficiaries
The environmental goal of AIR-AWARE project is to improve the awareness and to facilitate determinist decision making from several groups concerning the air quality impact, with an important component in favour of prevention and mitigation actions.
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