AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: The Invisible made Visible Phase 1 (SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development)

This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary co-creation of healthy cities using the core human value of human health and air quality as guiding principle for profound regional innovation. The unique group process that followed uses the complexity of the city of Eindhoven as living lab. It is an anthropology based initiative that invites directly to the same table of core innovative responsibility the local government, innovative business partners, scientific insights and research, and civilian participation. The first phase is described here in which the consortium decided to want to make the invisible of air pollution and human exposure visible for the integral innovative participation of all city's core pillars (policy, education, infrastructure, culture and entrepreneurship). The experience is unique in the world and proceeding now with more phases in Eindhoven and the role out of the same working format in other cities. This Brief is made available to inspire the world to address together the most complex issues of our current era: pollution, climate and core human values. Contents About the Co-authors Introduction 1 Potted Review of Economic Theory: The Complex Evolving System 1.1 A Potted Review 1.1.1 Where Has This Taken Us? 2 Early Days: From Personal Awareness to Group Commitment 2.1 A Personal Story of Awareness and Perception 2.1.1 My First Awareness Breakthrough 2.1.2 Layers of Awareness 2.1.3 My Second Burst of Awareness 2.1.4 Defining a New Society for Myself 2.1.5 Key Human Values 2.1.6 Inside = Outside 2.1.7 To Be and To Do 2.1.8 Welfare or Wellbeing? 2.1.9 Business Transformation 2.1.10 Leadership Versus Management 2.1.11 STIR Foundation—City of Tomorrow 2.1.12 Sustainocracy 2.1.13 City of Tomorrow 2.1.14 The Amsterdam Internet Congress 2.1.15 Key Elements that Define “Sustainocratic” AiREAS 2.1.16 AiREAS 2.1.17 Commitment First 2.1.18 Territorial Focus 2.1.19 Local AiREAS Eindhoven 2.1.20 First Things First 2.1.21 Making Visible the Invisible 2.1.22 From Idea to Project 2.1.23 Conclusion About the Coming About of AiREAS 2.1.24 Link with Ethics and Economies 3 “The Invisible Made Visible”: Science and Technology 3.1 The ILM 3.2 Variables Measured 3.3 Instrumentation 3.3.1 The Airbox 3.3.2 PM (PM10, PM2.5, PM1) Sensor 3.3.3 UFP Sensor 3.3.4 Ozone Sensor 3.3.5 NO2 Sensor 3.3.6 Temperature Sensor and Relative Humidity Sensor 3.3.7 Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) 3.3.8 Experiences and Recommendations 3.4 Data Quality 3.4.1 Regular Calibration and Preventative Maintenance 3.4.1.1 Initial Calibration 3.4.1.2 Experiences and Recommendations 3.4.1.3 Interim Calibration 3.4.1.4 Preventative Maintenance 3.4.2 Validation 3.4.2.1 Online 3.4.2.2 Afterwards 3.4.3 Smart Spatial Data Quality Evaluation and Online Normalization 3.5 Locations and Spatial Sampling 3.5.1 Experiences and Recommendations 3.5.1.1 UFP Rotation Scheme 3.6 Data Management 3.6.1 The Airbox 3.6.2 Axians (1) 3.6.3 ECN 3.6.4 Axians (2) 3.6.5 Experiences and Recommendations 3.7 Results 3.7.1 Initial Tests of Sensors 3.7.2 Evaluation of Sensor Precision 3.8 Scientific Projects Based on the ILM 4 Experiences After 5 Years of AiREAS and 1 Year of ILM 4.1 The Way Things Work at AiREAS 4.1.1 The Workflow in AiREAS 4.1.2 Financial Routine in AiREAS 4.1.3 Confidence Based Interaction 4.1.4 October 2013 General AiREAS Participants Meeting 4.1.5 Interpreting the ILM Data 4.1.6 The Transition 4.1.7 Communication 4.1.7.1 Reading and Interpreting the Near Real Time Data ECN Tool The Imtech App Casus Collection 4.1.7.2 Communication with the Citizens AiREAS Website The Blog Became Our Dynamic Tool Filming Progress via YouTube Citizen Encounters 4.1.7.3 What to Do with What We Learn About Pollution Patterns Spreading of AiREAS Values 4.1.8 Benchmarking and Referencing Our Practical Ideologies 4.1.9 The Royalty System 4.1.10 Some of the Transformative Issues 4.1.11 Conclusion 5 Erratum to: Potted Review of Economic Theory: The Complex Evolving System Erratum to: Chapter 1 in: J.-P. Close (ed.), AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City, SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26940-5_1 Index