Research Theme
Environment & Health
Environment & Health
Balancing environment, health, and urban resilience
The Environment and Health theme examines how the places where people live, work and interact shape everyday life, our relationships with the environment, and health and wellbeing outcomes. This theme considers the role of green and blue infrastructure, access to services, housing, and opportunities for active travel in supporting healthier behaviours and better quality of life, climate and biodiversity targets and wider sustainable development goals.
A key concern of the theme is how environmental benefits and risks are distributed across different people and places. By studying how people use, value and experience different environments in cities and beyond, this theme supports better evidence for improving our environment, supporting public health and wellbeing outcomes, and creating more resilient communities in the face of climate change.
Researchers
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Projects
Explore some of our recent research projects
Understanding use of urban greenspaces through big data
The overall aim of this project is to incorporate mobile phone data to better understand human interactions with urban greenspaces and how this dynamic has changed for different sectors of the population throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
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DataCivil
DataCivil: institutionalising citizen-generated data for risk reduction in Favelas A project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account (ESRC IAA).
news
Latest News from the Centre
How many heat pumps?
UBDC Director Nick Bailey responds to The Climate Change Committee downgrading the estimate of progress with the installation of heat pumps.
How investing in energy efficient homes pays back – twice!
New review on the impact of energy efficiency shows that more efficient properties are cheaper to run and worth more to sell.
European Space Agency funding UBDC and SatVu to develop Heat Loss Index
The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding a feasibility study, led by SatVu in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, to enhance the analysis of building energy efficiency.
Publications
Recent publications
Did COVID-19 discriminate in the global South? Revealing heterogeneity of urban households’ livelihood resilience based on evidence from Bangladesh, China, India and Philippines.
Developing an annual global Sub-National scale economic data from 1992 to 2021 using nighttime lights and deep learning.
Increased habitat availability as revealed by LiDAR contributes to the tropicalization of a subtropical butterfly community.
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At UBDC, you’ll join an international community of researchers, data scientists, social scientists and innovators using data and AI to understand and improve urban life. Our team brings together diverse expertise and perspectives to tackle the complex challenges facing cities worldwide.
Visit our people pages to meet the researchers, technical specialists and partners who make UBDC a leading centre for urban analytics and AI. Be part of our vibrant community by following our updates, sharing insights and engaging in conversations about data innovations and AI in urban policy.
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