Science Bar “Air quality in urban areas – Measurements, health, prevention”

Brasserie Le Dôme – 2, Avenue Georges Clémenceau, 34000 Montpellier.

Air quality has become a major public health issue and is at the heart of the ecological, energy, and solidarity transition. The latest report from the European Environment Agency, published in October 2018, is alarming: in 2015, 48,000 premature deaths in France were attributed to severely degraded air quality in urban areas.

Public bodies, doctors, researchers, and citizen associations regularly sound the alarm about air pollution, and it is clear that public policies are struggling to implement effective measures to reduce this health risk. According to the WHO, air pollution is the leading environmental risk to health worldwide.

Between concern and awareness, questions abound: Where do the various pollutants that concentrate in city centers and degrade the air we breathe come from? What impact do they have on our health? What precautions and measures should be taken?

This science-society debate brings together four scientists and specialists in the field:

• Pierre Camps, CNRS research director at the Geosciences Laboratory (University of Montpellier);
• Davia Dosias-Perla, research engineer at the ARTDev laboratory (Paul Valéry University) – Co-founder of the association “Les Artivistes”;
• Lionel Scotto d'Apollonia – Associate Researcher at the LIRDEF Laboratory (University of Montpellier – Paul Valéry University) – Deputy Director of GDR Parcs – Co-founder of the association "Les Artvistes";
• Florence Trébuchon, Allergist – Member of the Air-Health-Climate Collective and ASEF (Association Environnement France).

anniversary surprise party “Science after-bar”: Afro-Latin music performances by the group Onda Ya.

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