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

从温度、湿度到有毒物质，我们周围的环境对健康、舒适和幸福至关重要，决定着一个人最基本的需求的满足。因此，环境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)、能源匮乏以及与城市或气候有关的高温，这在2030年可持续发展目标中得到了反映。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环境环境(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对城市中特定人口或地点的不同影响。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，限制了政策制定者和实践者有效处理这些问题的能力。作为回应，该研究金开发了环境脆弱性的新概念，以及时提供证据，说明空气、气候和能源脆弱性是如何在城市中积累起来的，以及这对不同的人和地区产生的不平衡影响。前沿的地理数据科学方法将地理与数据科学(反之亦然)引入对话，这将得到广泛的利益相关者合作的支持。将首次定义、分析和绘制环境漏洞--无论是在家里、附近，还是在穿越城市的旅途中。创新地，分析将集中在两个尺度上：(I)比较英国不同城市社区环境脆弱性的分析和(Ii)利物浦市区域联合管理局城市实验室的详细分析。通过这样做，该奖学金将产生对劣质城市环境以及生活在其中意味着什么的新的理解。它将把不同的领域聚集在一起，以解决紧迫的城市问题，帮助形成一种跨部门的政策方法，以有效地应对周围的城市挑战。该研究金的框架和调查结果也高度适用于经历类似全球挑战的其他情况。为了取得成功，将组建一个多学科团队。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)将支持以政策为重点的联谊活动并提供建议。四个合作组织将在国家和地方范围内提供特定学科的专业知识和新颖的数据集：赫塞尔廷公共政策、实践和地点研究所(城市政策，气候变化)；英国气象局(气候，空气质量)；利物浦市议会住房部门(当地：住房，卫生)；以及默西塞德消防和救援服务(当地：室内空气质量，弱势群体)。随后，该研究金将为解决环境漏洞开辟新的途径。

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.