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GREENMASS PI: Professor Prashant Kumar

Presented by: Dr Sarkawt Hama

Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) University of Surrey, United Kingdom

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH MAPPING

ALLIANCE OF SURREY ACADEMICS

Urban Living Award Event, 05 December 2018

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GREENMASS Team

.....a multidisciplinary team (FEPS, FHMS,....)

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Founding PI

Professor Prashant Kumar (Professor and Chair in Air Quality & Health / Director, Global Centre for Clean Air

Research, GCARE; Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; FEPS).

Founding members

Professor Simon de Lusignan (Professor of Primary Care & Clinical Informatics / Chair in Health Care Management /

Head of the Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine; FHMS)

Professor Angela Druckman (Professor of Sustainable Consumption and Production; Production; Centre for

Environment & Sustainability; FEPS)

Professor Derk-Jan Dijk (Professor of Sleep and Physiology, Director Surrey Sleep Research Centre; Department of

Clinical and Experimental Medicine; FHMS)

Dr Birgitta Gatersleben (Reader in Environmental Psychology; School of Psychology; FHMS)

Dr Anne C. Skeldon (Reader in Mathematics; Department of Mathematics; FEPS)

Dr Sarah Allison (Lecturer in Health and Exercise Science, School of Bioscience and Medicine, University of Surrey).

Early career researchers

Dr Sarkawat Hama (GCARE Post-doctoral Researcher, ASAP-Delhi Project; Department of Civil & Environmental

Engineering)

Dr Uy Hoang (Post-doctoral Researcher, Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group; Department of

Clinical and Experimental Medicine)

Mr Arvind Tiwari (GCARE PhD Researcher, iSCAPE Project; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Mr KV Abhijith (GCARE PhD Researcher, iSCAPE Project; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Mr Ashish Sharma (GCARE PhD Researcher, MAPE Project; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering).

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Background

• The positives of green infrastructure (GI), such as trees

and hedges, on public health are clearly evident.

• Greening of cities for healthy urban living is being taken as

a priority in many cities worldwide, but the guidelines on

the deployment of GI in urban areas, and

• How much health benefits they bring in quantitative terms

(e.g., reduced mortality, hospital admissions or life years),

are still open questions for the research community, the

general public and various funding agencies.

• GREENMASS worked on these questions….

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Objectives

“The overall goal is to foster collaboration between

numerous research areas such as

Air Pollution, Green Infrastructure Engineering, Clinical Health,

Environmental Sustainability, Mathematical Modelling, Mental Health

and Environmental Psychology

via a research alliance platform to address this complex

urban problem.”

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Journey….

Meetings: two face-to-face

Website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/global-centre-clean-air-research/projects/green-

infrastructure-and-health-mapping-alliance-surrey

Logo:

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Journey….

Outreach…

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..a number of organisations such as Plant Health Economist, Forest Services, Edmonton

and Area Land Trust contacted to keep them updated with the project outcome

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Outcomes

A position paper – submitted to “Science” on 25 Nov 2018

• EPSRC CDT in Clean Air Engineering

• Internal GCRF proposal submitted

…both involved many GREENMASS members

• Other proposals and papers are under consideration

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Kumar et al., 2018. Science, Under review.

The message is clear

Green infrastructure is good and we all love it… but there are some downsides

….so its important to choose what and where to place

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What next…

We would like to continue sustaining GREENMASS consortium

via continuous interactions

…further support will be key

We are also open and invite anyone who is interested to join

and work with us

...genuine interest is key

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Acknowledgements

.. EU-Funded iSCAPE project

.. UK-India NERC funded ASAP-Delhi project

..GREENMASS team for their contributions and our collaborators

We thank

…Urban Living Award to set-up this consortium

iSCAPE has received funding from the European Community’s H2020 Programme under Grant Agreement No. 689954.

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Contact: [email protected] (Professor Prashant Kumar)

Visit GREENMASS Page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/global-centre-clean-air-research/projects/green-infrastructure-and-health-mapping-alliance-surrey