The Development of Heat Health Watch Warning Systems for Five European Cities: Results From the European Union PHEWE Project

Epidemiology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (Suppl) ◽  
pp. S86
Author(s):  
Glenn McGregor ◽  
Pavlos Kassomenos ◽  
Francesca deʼDonato ◽  
Kristof Blazejczyk ◽  
Tanja Cengar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Cities

scholarly journals New EU Initiatives against Terrorism

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Olga Potemkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
The Eu

The article examines the EU’s response to a series of terrorist attacks in European cities in the autumn of 2020, after which the topic of terrorism once again came to the fore on the EU political agenda. The author analyses the new Counter-Terrorism Action Plan and the Regulation on the removal of terrorist content from the Internet adopted after a protracted inter-institutional dialogue between the EU Council and the European Parliament. The article also looks at the problem of expanding the mandate of the Europol agency in the field of big data analysis, while the author emphasises that member states still doubt the need to grant the agency access to data encryption. The author comes to the conclusion that the European Union quite adequately fulfills the tasks outlined in the documents to respond to terrorist attacks, but has not been very successful in preventing them. It is noted that in the plans of international anti-terrorist cooperation, the European Union, as before, does not include Russia, which can not but reduce the effect of global and regional confrontation with new security challenges.

scholarly journals Europejskie miasta od nowa

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5(74)) ◽  
pp. 205-223
Author(s):  
Maria Katarzyna Grzegorzewska ◽  
Piotr Karocki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Smart City ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Full Implementation ◽  
The World ◽  
European Union Legislation

European Cities Reloaded. Stress or Relaxation? This article justifies the thesis that the full implementation of the Smart City concept (re-development of cities around the world) will significantly reduce the stress in which their inhabitants live. The article starts with introducing the very concept of Smart City: why there is a need to rebuild cities and what it is all about. Then, it lists the basic stressors related to living in a city, and finally indicates which Smart City activities (standardized by ISO and implemented by the European Union legislation) counteract the aforementioned stressors.

scholarly journals Air Quality Estimation in Ukraine Using SDG 11.6.2 Indicator Assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrii Shelestov ◽  
Hanna Yailymova ◽  
Bohdan Yailymov ◽  
Nataliia Kussul
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The European Union ◽  
City Development ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Monitoring Service ◽  
Functional Areas

Ukraine is an associate member of the European Union and in the coming years it is expected that all the data and services already used by European Union countries will become available for Ukraine. An important program, which is the basis for building European monitoring services for Smart Cities, is the Copernicus program. The two most important services of this program are Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). CLMS provides important information on Land Use in Europe. In the context of Smart Cities, the most valuable one is the Urban Atlas service, which is related to local CLMS services and provides a detailed digital city plan in vector form, which is segmented into small functional areas classified by the CORIN nomenclature. The Urban Atlas is a geospatial layer with high-resolution, which is built for all European cities with a population of more than 100,000 that combines high-resolution sat-ellite data, city segmentation by blocks and functional areas, important city infrastructure, etc. This product is used as a basis for city planning and obtaining analytics on the most important indicators of city development including air quality monitoring. For Ukraine, such geospatial products are not provided under the Copernicus program. It is important to start work on its development and implementation as early as possible, so that when the first city atlas appears, Ukraine will be ready to work with it together with the European community. This requires preparing the basis for na-tional research and training national stakeholders and users to use this product. To make this happen it’s necessary to have national geospatial product, which can be used as an analogue of the city atlas. In this article authors analyzed the existing methods of air quality assessment and assessment of the SDG indicator 11.6.2 achieving for European cities, based on which the indicator 11.6.2 for Ukraine for 5 years was evaluated for the first time. The obtained results are analyzed and the values of indicator 11.6.2 for Ukraine are compared with European countries.

scholarly journals Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-149
Author(s):  
Maximilian v. Ehrlich ◽  
Henry G. Overman
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Spatial Disparities ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Capital Subsidies

Spatial disparities in income levels and worklessness in the European Union are profound, persistent and may be widening. We describe disparities across metropolitan regions and discuss theories and empirical evidence that help us understand what causes these disparities. Increases in the productivity benefits of cities, the clustering of highly educated workers and increases in their wage premium all play a role. Europe has a long-standing tradition of using capital subsidies, enterprise zones, transport investments and other place-based policies to address these disparities. The evidence suggests these policies may have partially offset increasing disparities but are not sufficient to fully offset the economic forces at work.

scholarly journals Komparace způsobů varování před povodněmi ve vybraných evropských státech

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
Lukáš Luděk ◽  
◽  
Lucia Mrázková ◽  
David Šaur
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Convective Precipitation ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Heuristic Analysis

The aim of the paper is to point out the ability of selected states to respond to convective collisions. The paper is divided into two main parts. The first part describes ways to warn the population in selected countries. These warning methods are then analysed using the heuristic analysis. The second part of the paper describes the individual models for predicting convective precipitation and analyses how the results are presented to the population. The result of the paper is an overview of the positive aspects of the individual states analysed. It also points out the need for integrating measures into the process of forecasting warning systems at the level of the European Union.

Cities on the Front Lines

Greenovation ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Joan Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Gasoline Prices ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Sustainability Planning ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Us Cities

This chapter first sets out the book’s purpose, which is to take readers on a tour of greenovating cities in North America and Europe, exploring their strategies and successes, along with the opportunities and obstacles they have encountered along the way. In general, European cities have lower per capita greenhouse gas emissions than US cities due to their higher density, more diverse transit options, historically high gasoline prices, and long-standing climate policy at the European Union, national, and municipal levels. A broad literature has emerged on urban climate change and sustainability planning, much of it focusing on what constitutes successful practice. In contrast, this book focuses on the how elected officials, planners, and other stakeholders design and implement effective policy and programs. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Diversity and social cohesion in European cities: Making sense of today’s European Union–urban nexus within cohesion policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Scheurer ◽  
Annegret Haase
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Governance Modes

This commentary discusses the nexus between the European Union (EU) and the local level of government in light of the contemporary challenge of maintaining social cohesion in European urban areas. Social cohesion is understood as a key element of societal stability, which is increasingly constrained in many urban contexts. Against the backdrop of decision-makers being challenged to find effective governance modes and policies addressing ever more diverse urban populations, the commentary presents evidence on how urban authorities use European funds in addressing social cohesion challenges. Cities’ use of the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds in diversity governance has been found to hinge on various factors that are often inter-institutionally determined and that may restrict cities’ possibilities to make most efficient use of the funding. The commentary concludes that more effective and participative forms of multi-level cooperation within frameworks like cohesion policy and the newly established Urban Agenda for the EU are necessary in supporting social cohesion and successful diversity governance in European cities. It further suggests that a reform of EU cohesion policy should entail both conceptual and institutional innovations, allowing for an integration of the intersections of urban diversity and cohesion in policy and fund design and a reinforcement of the partnership principle.

scholarly journals Universities and Social Cohesion in the European Union

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bastedo
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Top Down ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
State Programs ◽  
Daunting Challenge

It has become conventional wisdom in recent years that Europe faces a daunting challenge of social cohesion in the face of increasingly hostile and radical Islamic immigrants residing in European cities. It has thus become a goal in the European Union to increase social cohesion using state programs and resources, universities among them. From a governance perspective, the top-down approach to social cohesion does not seem likely to succeed beyond its symbolic value. Instead, we must rethink governance from the bottom up.

scholarly journals URBAN POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY URBANISATION PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES OF POLISH CITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy J. PARYSEK
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
The European Union ◽  
City Development ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Environmental

The great dynamics and wide range of contemporary Polish processes of urbanisation as well as problems of city development and operation require setting objectives, formulating rules and implementing urban policy. Its aim should be to support municipalities in their attempt to solve primary problems. What makes such a policy necessary is the fact that, while cities play a crucial role in global socio-economic development, they also experience financial, demographic, social, environmental, housing and other problems most severely. Therefore in many cases cities cannot be generators of development and cannot be responsible for the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, as stipulated by the European Union. The aim of this paper is to present the principles of urban policy which could be implemented in Poland taking into account both, the existing situation and the position of the European Union on this matter. It is assumed that urban policy will be implemented at two levels: supra-local (the European Union, state and regional) and local. The first of these levels will apply to all European cities, Polish cities and those of a particular region, while the other, to a particular city and its spatial components. The policy principles will result from EU documents for which urban policy is a component of regional policy. Primarily, it is the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities and the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion: Turning territorial diversity into strength.

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