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Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities
The growing flow of people into cities causes several challenges for their functioning. This brings the need to ensure, for example, efficient transport, sustainable waste, and appropriate energy policy. Particularly capital cities are exposed to the above-mentioned risks, due to their large numbers...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8999116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35410013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074327 |
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author | Czupich, Mariusz Łapińska, Justyna Bartoš, Vojtěch |
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description | The growing flow of people into cities causes several challenges for their functioning. This brings the need to ensure, for example, efficient transport, sustainable waste, and appropriate energy policy. Particularly capital cities are exposed to the above-mentioned risks, due to their large numbers and densities of inhabitants. Therefore, the state of the environment in cities should be monitored systematically. The research aim of this article is to evaluate the level of environmental sustainability in capitals of European Union countries. A synthetic indicator was made up of diagnostic variables, using quantitative and qualitative indicators relating to the quality of the environment. Based on the ranking, results reveal that Europe is spatially divided according to the level of environmental quality. The best results were achieved by capital cities of the northern European countries. The analysis presented here has some application potential. It can serve to identify challenges to improving the quality of the environment, and to raise public awareness of the importance of changing individual behaviour (e.g., use of public transport). |
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spelling | pubmed-89991162022-04-12 Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities Czupich, Mariusz Łapińska, Justyna Bartoš, Vojtěch Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The growing flow of people into cities causes several challenges for their functioning. This brings the need to ensure, for example, efficient transport, sustainable waste, and appropriate energy policy. Particularly capital cities are exposed to the above-mentioned risks, due to their large numbers and densities of inhabitants. Therefore, the state of the environment in cities should be monitored systematically. The research aim of this article is to evaluate the level of environmental sustainability in capitals of European Union countries. A synthetic indicator was made up of diagnostic variables, using quantitative and qualitative indicators relating to the quality of the environment. Based on the ranking, results reveal that Europe is spatially divided according to the level of environmental quality. The best results were achieved by capital cities of the northern European countries. The analysis presented here has some application potential. It can serve to identify challenges to improving the quality of the environment, and to raise public awareness of the importance of changing individual behaviour (e.g., use of public transport). MDPI 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8999116/ /pubmed/35410013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074327 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Czupich, Mariusz Łapińska, Justyna Bartoš, Vojtěch Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities |
title | Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities |
title_full | Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities |
title_fullStr | Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities |
title_short | Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the European Union’s Capital Cities |
title_sort | environmental sustainability assessment of the european union’s capital cities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8999116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35410013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074327 |
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