Skip to main content

Search

C-Urge - iniciatives

helbohm
Annotation of

C-Urge project is a doctoral network set up to research and better understand the complexity of climate and enviromental change, that is happening on global, as well as on a local scale. 

Through various research approaches set in various countries, we aim to highlight the notion of urgency and need to enrich the debate around the topic of environemtal change, that is both fast, and subtle and poses a serious challenge for the future.   

COVID-19 Rapid Student Interview Project

COVID-19 Rapid Student Interview Collection Form

This project aims to provide an engaging project for post-secondary students (undergraduate and graduate) to gain experience with qualitative research methodology  while contributing to public

Air pollution monitoring in El Vado

We used two particulate matter (PM) monitoring networks, while sharing with neighbors the chemical components of PM and its impacts on health.

 

tbeg2880.jpeg

Citizen science to El Vado community

In connection with other research groups at the university, we got in touch with neighbors of El Vado in order to discuss what they thought of the urban intervention and in an attempt to include ci

img_2892.jpeg

Tactic urbanism intervention on El Vado

This past September 2019, Llactalab—an urban studies research group at University of Cuenca—proposed a tactical urbanism intervention with the aim of reducing pedestrians’ mobility risks in the str

hymy2931.jpeg

El Vado air pollution stories

According to Juan, a metal worker air quality has only decreased over the years causing lung cancer among some of his colleagues and close kin.

img_2189.jpeg

air pollution social protest in El Vado

In 2010, artists and craftsmen-women who rent small local businesses, started an initiative against noise and air pollution resulting from excessive bus/car traffic.

img_1973.jpeg