PUrE: Pollutants in the Urban Environment

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    The aim of the PUrE project was to develop an integrated decision-support framework comprising a suite of appropriate models and tools for a more sustainable management of urban pollution.

    The specific research objectives and themes of the project were:

    - to develop further understanding of and to establish links between sources, pollutants and human activities in the urban environment

    - to develop an integrated approach to the selection and application of appropriate tools for modelling the fate and transport of a range of pollutants in the urban environment which considers important processes and key dynamic aspects

    - to develop an assessment methodology and integrate a suite of appropriate models and tools to help urban stakeholders understand the potential human health and ecological impacts of pollution in the urban environment

    - to understand the relationships between socio-economic factors, human behaviour and urban pollution and to ensure that a robust understanding of these issues underpinned the methodological development of the PUrE programme

    - to develop a methodology that enabled consideration of spatial and temporal dimensions of urban pollution

    - to develop a methodology for integrated sustainability assessments of alternative options (human activities, technologies, policies etc.) and scenarios, showing explicit trade-offs between environmental, social and economic criteria and enabling balanced decision making

    - to develop a better understanding of complex relationships between pollution, policy and liability

    - to understand the main risks and uncertainties in different elements of the PUrE methodology and decision-support framework, including uncertainties in the decisionmaking process.

    The main deliverables were a decision-support methodology, modelling platform (software) incorporating a suite of models and tools, and the end-user guidance documents.
    Short titleR:ESZ ESZ: Azapagic 19.12.06
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/08/0331/07/09

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