Mapping ambient vulnerabilities: Air-energy-climate interrelations in the urban environment and implications for cross-sectoral governance

从温度和湿度到毒性，我们周围的环境对健康，舒适和幸福至关重要，决定了一个人最基本需求的满足。因此，正如2030年可持续发展目标所反映的那样，周围环境也是全球城市面临的几个最紧迫的城市挑战和社会正义问题的组成部分，包括空气质量差（室内和室外），能源贫困以及城市或气候相关的热量。然而，虽然在物理科学中，复杂的模型被用来理解和预测全球系统的周围环境（例如，国际气候变化专门委员会），但没有一个总体框架来考虑城市中特定人群或地方的差异影响。相反，复杂和相互关联的脆弱性往往在不同的部门和学科中处理，限制了决策者和从业人员有效处理这些问题的能力。作为回应，该奖学金开发了环境脆弱性的新概念，及时提供证据，说明空气，气候和能源脆弱性如何在城市中积累，以及这对不同的人和地方产生的不均匀影响。尖端的地理数据科学方法将地理学与数据科学（反之亦然）结合起来，将得到广泛的利益相关者合作的支持。环境脆弱性将首次被定义、分析和绘制-无论是在家中、社区还是在城市旅行期间。创新性的分析将侧重于两个尺度：㈠分析比较英格兰各城市邻近地区的环境脆弱性; ㈡详细分析利物浦城市地区联合管理局的城市实验室。在这样做的过程中，该研究金将使人们对低质量的城市环境以及在其中生活意味着什么产生新的理解。它将汇集不同的领域，以解决紧迫的城市问题，帮助形成一个跨部门的政策方法，以有效地应对周围的城市挑战。该研究金的框架和研究结果也非常适用于经历类似全球挑战的其他情况。为了取得成功，将组建一个多学科小组。作为项目合作者，领先的慈善机构国家能源行动（能源政策，健康）将支持和建议政策为重点的奖学金活动。四个合作伙伴组织将在国家和地方范围内提供特定主题的专业知识和新的数据集：赫塞尔廷公共政策，实践和地方研究所（城市政策，气候变化）;气象局（气候，空气质量）;利物浦市理事会住房部（当地：住房，健康）;和默西塞德郡消防和救援服务（当地：室内空气质量，弱势群体）。随后，该研究金将为解决环境脆弱性开辟新的途径。

From its temperature and humidity, to its toxicty, our immediate ambient environment is essential to health, comfort, and wellbeing, determining the fulfilment of a person's most fundamental needs. The ambient environment is therefore also integral to several of the most pressing urban challenges and social justice questions facing cities globally, including poor air quality (both indoor and outdoor), energy poverty, and urban or climate-related heat, as reflected in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, whilst in the physical sciences sophisticated models are used to understand and predict the ambient environment for global systems (for example, the International Panel on Climate Change), there is no overarching framework which considers the differential implications for specific populations or places in cities. Instead complex and interconnected vulnerabilities are often dealt with in separate sectors and disciplines, limiting the ability of policymakers and practitioners to deal with the issues effectively. In response, this fellowship develop the new concept of ambient vulnerabilities, to provide timely evidence of how air, climate and energy vulnerabilities accumulate in cities, and the uneven impact that this has on different people and places. Cutting-edge Geographic Data Science approaches, that bring geography into conversation with data science (and vice versa), will be underpinned by extensive stakeholder collaboration. Ambient vulnerabilities will be defined, analysed, and mapped for the first time - whether in the home, neighbourhood, or during a journey through the city. Innovatively, analysis will focus on two scales: (i) analyses comparing ambient vulnerability in neighbourhoods across cities in England and (ii) detailed analyses of the urban laboratory of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. In doing so, the fellowship will generate new understanding of poor-quality urban environments and what it means to live within them. It will bring together disparate fields to tackle pressing urban problems, helping to shape a cross-sectoral policy approach to tackling ambient urban challenges effectively. The fellowship's framing and findings are also highly applicable to other contexts experiencing similar global challenges. To succeed, a multi-disciplinary team will be assembled. As project collaborator, the leading charity National Energy Action (Energy policy, health) will support and advise on policy-focused fellowship activities. Four partner organisations that will provide subject-specific expertise and novel datasets at the national and local scale: the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place (Urban policy, climate change); Met Office (Climate, air quality); Liverpool City Council Housing Department (Local: Housing, health); and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (Local: Indoor air quality, vulnerable populations). Subsequently, the fellowship will open new avenues for tackling ambient vulnerabilities.