AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change.

The three books together describe 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.

Emphasises human wellness and sustainable progress Targets regional vulnerability due to pollution, climate change and regional competition for resources Introduces level 4 regional development, a participation society as clear answer to the challenges we face world wide. Peer 4 has been defined by the Presencing Institute as self aware global co-creation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Introduction.- Foreword.- Chapter 1: Persuasive communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Jaap Ham.- Chapter 2: the AiREAS Proof of Principle - POP Relating air quality to health and lifestyle, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder, John Schmeitz.- Chapter 3: The backpack project, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder.- Chapter 4: New entrepreneurship, by John Schmeitz, Jean-Paul Close.- Chapter 5: Event linked communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Eric de Groot, Pierre Cluitmans.- Chapter 6: Multicultural context, by Jean-Paul Close, Rüstem Demir.- Chapter 7: Level 4 Sustainocratic regional development, by Jean-Paul Close.