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PROPOLIS aims at defining long-term urban strategies that can simultaneously improve the environmental, social and economic components of urban sustainability.
Eighty percent of Europeans live in cities facing increasing levels of traffic pollution and congestion. This creates, among others, environmental, health and social problems, which also increase the economic burden on citizens.
According to a questionnaire sent by the European Environment Agency to EU cities with a population of more than half a million, major concerns about the quality of the urban environment in Europe are air pollution, noise and traffic congestion. Increasing road traffic was identified as the most important source for these problems. Recent studies have shown that almost forty million Europeans are exposed at least once annually to air quality guidelines being exceeded. For noise, about 450 million people, or 65% of the population in Europe, live in areas where the 24 hour equivalent sound level exceeds 55 dB(A), and almost 10 million live in areas where it exceeds 75 dB(A). The problem is also reflected in the 40,000 yearly traffic fatalities, the 2% loss in GNP due to congestion and in the continuing growth in traffic.
PROPOLIS addresses these and other global, regional and local problems, such as greenhouuse gas emissions, energy use, urban economy, environmental and social issues - all relating to urban sustainability.
PROPOLIS aims at identifying sustainable urban policies. Therefore, the concept of sustainability in the urban context has to be analysed and defined.
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