Urban Health and Quality of Life Strategies

The places people live shape how long and how well they live. Air quality, heat, green space, noise, mobility and the resilience of urban systems all bear directly on health and wellbeing. SoReCC works at the environment, climate and health nexus, helping partners design urban strategies that protect health and raise quality of life, especially for those most exposed.

Our multi-disciplinary network connects environmental and climate research with the social sciences and economics to understand how urban conditions translate into health outcomes. We give particular attention to climate driven health risks such as extreme heat and to the uneven way these risks are distributed across populations. This allows consortia to design interventions that are both evidence based and equitable.

We are equally focused on strategy and uptake. SoReCC supports the development of integrated urban health frameworks, the assessment of co-benefits between climate action and public health, and the engagement of residents, local authorities and health actors in shaping solutions. Our strength in co-creation and participation makes us a natural partner for living lab, demonstration and citizen engagement activities, and for the dissemination and exploitation that carry results into practice.

This work supports the Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, the Horizon Europe cluster on Health and the cluster on Climate, Energy and Mobility, alongside the EU agenda on the environment and health. It contributes to Sustainable Development Goals 3, 11 and 13.

SoReCC provides the capacity to link environment, climate and health evidence with community engagement, helping projects deliver cities that are healthier, fairer and more liveable.