PEER webinar – How interaction with the environment and urban nature affects our health (11.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00)

Cities play a crucial role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and by 2050 this proportion will have risen to two-thirds. At the same time, cities – and the people who live in them – face many problems caused by urbanization and climate change – such as increased air pollution, heatwaves, extreme rainfall and health problems partly driven by limited access to green spaces.

People walking and riding in an urban park. Tom Page CC BY-SA 2.0

How interaction with the environment and urban nature affects our health. PEER webinar in collaboration with CIENS. Tom Page CC BY-SA 2.0

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Programme

  • Introduction by the PEER coordinator at CIENS, Audun Ruud
  • Laurence Jones and David Fletcher, UKCEH. Presenting the City Explorer Toolkit.
  • Léa Tardieu, INRAE: Urban greening and environmental justice in the Paris metropolitan area
  • Venter, Z. S, CIENS/NINA. Environmental justice in a very green city Oslo
  • Marianne Zandersen, DCE: Mortality reductions from heat mitigation by urban green spaces in Paris.
  • Susana Lopez-Aparicio, CIENS/NILU: Environmental sustainability of urban expansion
  • Sjerp de Vries, WUR: Domestic gardens and morbidity
  • Quick Q & A
  • Wrapping up by the chair