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WHO. We are a scientific consortium of researchers from the University of Turku, the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the University of Helsinki.
WHAT. We research the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on individual persons’ well-being and health. We hypothesize that certain environmental and socio-economic parameters have an impact on an individual’s health.
WHY. The HERCULES project will gain actionable knowledge to integrate climate-health risks in strategic city planning. The results will be largely relevant for improving socio-economically deprived neighborhoods.
WHERE. Our analyses cover the whole of Finland, but we focus on Finland’s six largest cities Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa, Turku and Oulu.
WHEN. We will be carrying out the analysis of the long-term collected cohort health data and the environmental and socio-economic parameters from January 2020 to December 2023.
Find out more about the HERCULES project:
HERCULES stands for “HEalth, Risk and Climate change: Understanding Links between Exposure, hazards and vulnerability across spatial and temporal Scales”.
HERCULES aims to provide ground-breaking, yet actionable, knowledge about climate related health risks. Data on environmental and socio-economic parameters are analysed together with cohort health data on several time-steps, allowing us to make conclusions about their connections.
Fields of Research:
Human Health Sciences | Geography | Meteorology | Atmospheric Sciences | Environmental Sciences | Social Sciences:
- Social Geography
- Environmental Geography
- Public Health
- Urban Studies
- Regional Meteorology
- Climate Sciences
- Climate Change Sciences
- Socio-economic Sciences
Key Words:
Mortality | Urban Climate | Climate Change | Air Quality | Greenness | Policy | Urban Planning | Adaptation:
- Environmental Health
- Urban Heat Island
- Exposure
- Vulnerability
- Hazard
- Risk
- Morbidity
- Slipperiness
- Green Infrastructure
- GIS