AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City The Invisible made Visible Phase 1 /

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 hu...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Close, Jean-Paul (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Series:SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development,
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26940-5
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I Potted Review of Economic Theory: The Complex Evolving System
  • 1. A Potted Review
  • Part II Early Days: From Personal Awareness to Group Commitment
  • 2. A personal story of awareness and perception
  • 2.1 My first awareness breakthrough
  • 2.2 Layers of awareness
  • 2.3 My second burst of awareness
  • 2.4 Defining a new society for myself
  • 2.5 Key human values
  • 2.6 Inside = outside
  • 2.7 To be and to do
  • 2.7 Welfare or wellbeing?
  • 2.8 Business transformation
  • 2.9 Leadership versus management
  • 2.10 STIR Foundation - City of Tomorrow
  • 2.11 Sustainocracy
  • 2.12 City of Tomorrow
  • 2.13 The Amsterdam internet congress
  • 2.14 Key elements that define “sustainocratic” AiREAS
  • 2.15 AiREAS
  • 2.16 Commitment first
  • 2.17 Territorial focus
  • 2.18 Local AiREAS Eindhoven
  • 2.19 First things first
  • 2.20 Making visible the invisible
  • 2.21 From idea to project
  • 2.22 Conclusion about the coming about of AiREAS
  • 2.23 Link with ethics and economies
  • Part III “The Invisible made Visible”: science and technology
  • An introduction by Marco van Lochem
  • 3.1 The ILM
  • 3.2. Variables measured
  • 3.3.3. 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
  • 4 Data quality
  • 4.1 Regular calibration and preventative maintenance
  • 4.2 Experiences and recommendations
  • 5 Locations and spatial sampling
  • 5.1 Experiences and recommendations
  • 6 Data management
  • 6.1 The Airbox
  • 6.2 Axians (1)
  • 6.3 ECN
  • 6.4 Axians (2)
  • 6.5 Experiences and recommendations
  • 7 Results
  • 7.1 Initial tests of sensors
  • 7.2 Evaluation of sensor precision
  • 8 Scientific projects based on the ILM
  • Part IV Experiences after 5 years of AiREAS and 1 year of ILM
  • 9. The way things work at AiREAS
  • 9.1 The workflow in AiREAS
  • 9.2 Financial routine in AiREAS
  • 9.3 Confidence based interaction
  • 9.4 October 2013 general AiREAS participants meeting
  • 9.5 Interpreting the ILM data
  • 9.6 The transition
  • 9.7 Communication
  • 9.8 Benchmarking and referencing our practical ideologies
  • 9.9 The royalty system
  • 9.10 Some of the transformative issues
  • 9.11 Conclusion. Index. .