Abstract
AUGIs - Áreas Urbanas de Génese Ilegal, are defined in Portuguese legislation as sets of parcels of land predominantly occupied by unlicensed constructions. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the health impact of environmental factors such as traffic and airport pollution, noise exposure and lack of green spaces, in populations surrounding the AUGIs areas of Antiga Fetais, Boavista and Fonte da Pipa, in Loures Municipality. This area is located north to Lisbon, near to runway 21 of Lisbon Airport and close to major motorway junctions. A qualitative review based of the existing literature has been complemented with the critical assessment of available Public Health indicators following exposure to particular matter-(PM2.5, PM10), ultrafine particles-UFPs, nitrous oxides-NOx, Ozone-O3, and other pollutants. Several studies have highlighted the combined role of air pollution and PM in terms of heat mortality and hospital admissions (Stafoggia et al, 2023; Gasparrini et at 2023), linked with the lack of reserved /dedicated green areas (Heo et al, 2023; Hayon, 2024). Health inequity follows also to social inequalities (Heo, Bell, 2023). Besides that, a recent independent study (Transport & Environment, 2024) indicated that UFPs emitted by planes at Lisbon airport metropolitan area has the stronger impact among the EU airports due to its location and could be the cause of 15,473 hypertension cases, 18,615 diabetes cases or 1,837 dementia cases. The need to prevent informal/illegal settlement at AUGIS should be supplemented with proper enforcement of pollution control or adequate access to greenspaces, avoiding urban pockets of social exclusion
Presenters
Pedro Diaz PeraltaVisiting Fellow, Administrative Law- Faculty of Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid/ Yale University, Madrid, Spain
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Human Impacts and Responsibility
KEYWORDS
Pollutants, PM2.5 PM10, UFP, Greenness, Noise, Exposure, Public Health
