The ALICE project will lead to the concepts of Environmental and Territorial Justice establishing links between environmental issues (air pollution) and social determinants and assess the territorial fairness, contributing to improve citizen engagement.
It aims to perform a three folded environmental justice analysis, with three main objectives:
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to build a distributive justice analysis for Portugal via the quantitative assessment of spatial relationships between air pollution concentrations (NO2, O3, PM10, PM2.5), emissions, health, and local demographic and socioeconomic data in the past and present time;
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to assess the perception of citizens regarding environmental (in)justice (justice as recognition), focusing on air pollution;
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to assess procedural justice at a local scale, thought the means of a policy analysis.
The project is organized in 7 Tasks.
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Tasks 1-3: The first three will occur simultaneously and they will provide an extensive dataset on environmental stressor (air pollution data, considering both monitored and modelled data), socioeconomic indicators and health data, respectively.
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Task 4: these data will be processed using statistical tools, investigating the relationship between social status, living places and exposure to air pollutants.
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Task 5. The people’s perception of environmental inequalities [objective ii)] will be evaluated in Task 5 (based on survey approach).
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Task 6: The data collected in these tasks will be used to support the integrated and multiscale assessment of Environmental and territorial Justice [objective i) and iii)].
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Task 7: dedicated to the production of the guidelines and a decision support system for policy makers, developed based on the project findings.