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Centre of Expertise for Environment & Health (2012-2015)

The Centre of Expertise 2012-2015 is an inter-university consortium of research teams, specialized in environmental health. A broad spectrum of scholars cooperate in specific and long term research projects: toxicologists, physicians, epidemiologists and sociologists. This 3th generation center focusses on the (reference) human biomonitoring of three age groups at the one hand, representative for Flanders and the comparative human biomonitoring of hot spot areas on the other (Gentse Kanaalzone). The group of prof. Loots takes the lead for the science-policy nexus, risk communication and risk governance. Techniques are developed to open up the scientific research design and the group results for concerned parties and to encourage citizens and stakeholders to get involved (beyond study participation). Also social diversity and environmental justice are on the research agenda: not only in the data-analysis, also an additional recruitment strategy is experimented.
Date:1 Jan 2012 →  31 Dec 2015
Keywords:BIOMONITORING, STAKEHOLDERS' PERCEPTION, STAKEHOLDER AND CITIZENS PARTICIPATION, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Disciplines:Sustainable and environmental engineering, Public health care, Public health sciences, Public health services, Applied sociology, Policy and administration, Social psychology, Social stratification, Social theory and sociological methods, Sociology of life course, family and health, Other sociology and anthropology
Project type:Collaboration project