AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

The Invisible made Visible Phase 1
Herausgegeben:Close, Jean-Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thisbook describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthycity" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabantin the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinaryco-creation of healthy cities using the core human value of human health andair quality as guiding principle for profound regional innovation. The uniquegroup process that followed uses the complexity of the city of Eindhoven asliving lab. It is an anthropology based initiative that invites directly to thesame table of core innovative responsibility the local government, innovativebusiness partners, scientific insights and research, and civilian participation.The first phase is described here in which the consortium decided to want tomake the invisible of air pollution and human exposure visible for the integralinnovative participation of all city's core pillars (policy, education,infrastructure, culture and entrepreneurship). The experience is unique in theworld and proceeding now with more phases in Eindhoven and the role out of thesame working format in other cities. This Brief is made available to inspirethe world to address together the most complex issues of our current era:pollution, climate and core human values.

Produktdetails

• SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin / Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-26939-9
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9783319269399
• ISBN-10: 3319269399
• Artikelnr.: 43935205

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Part I Potted Review of Economic Theory: TheComplex Evolving System.- 1. A Potted Review.- Part II Early Days: FromPersonal Awareness to Group Commitment.- 2. A personal story of awareness andperception.- 2.1 My first awareness breakthrough.- 2.2 Layers of awareness.- 2.3My second burst of awareness.- 2.4 Defining a new society for myself.- 2.5 Keyhuman values.- 2.6 Inside = outside.- 2.7 To be and to do.- 2.7 Welfare or wellbeing?.- 2.8 Businesstransformation.- 2.9 Leadership versus management.- 2.10 STIR Foundation - Cityof Tomorrow.- 2.11 Sustainocracy.- 2.12 City of Tomorrow.- 2.13 The Amsterdaminternet congress.- 2.14 Key elements that define "sustainocratic" AiREAS.- 2.15AiREAS.- 2.16 Commitment first.- 2.17 Territorial focus.- 2.18 Local AiREASEindhoven.- 2.19 First things first.- 2.20 Making visible the invisible.- 2.21From idea to project.- 2.22 Conclusion about the coming about of AiREAS.- 2.23Link with ethics and economies.- Part III "The Invisible made Visible": scienceand technology.- An introduction by Marco van Lochem.- 3.1 The ILM.- 3.2.Variables measured.- 3.3.3. Instrumentation.- 3.3.1 The Airbox.- 3.3.2 PM(PM10, PM2.5, PM1) sensor.- 3.3.3 UFP sensor.- 3.3.4 Ozone sensor.- 3.3.5 NO2sensor.- 3.3.6 Temperature sensor and relative humidity sensor.- 3.3.7Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).- 3.3.8 Experiences and recommendations.- 4Data quality.- 4.1 Regular calibration and preventative maintenance.- 4.2Experiences and recommendations.- 5 Locations and spatial sampling.- 5.1 Experiencesand recommendations.- 6 Data management.- 6.1 The Airbox.- 6.2 Axians (1).- 6.3ECN.- 6.4 Axians (2).- 6.5 Experiences and recommendations.- 7 Results.- 7.1Initial tests of sensors.- 7.2 Evaluation of sensor precision.- 8 Scientificprojects based on the ILM.- Part IV Experiences after 5 years of AiREAS and 1year of ILM.- 9. The way things work at AiREAS.- 9.1 The workflow in AiREAS.- 9.2 Financialroutine in AiREAS.- 9.3Confidence based interaction.- 9.4 October 2013 generalAiREAS participants meeting.- 9.5 Interpreting the ILM data.- 9.6 Thetransition.- 9.7 Communication.- 9.8 Benchmarking and referencing our practicalideologies.- 9.9 The royalty system.- 9.10 Some of the transformative issues.- 9.11Conclusion. Index.