Environmental quality at district scale: A transdisciplinary approach within the EUREQUA project

This paper presents a research project entitled EUREQUA (Multidisciplinary Assessment and Environmental Requalification of districts) that adopts an original methodological approach relying on a multidisciplinary team of researchers in physics, environmental, human and social sciences (geographers, sociologists, atmospheric physicists, acousticians, architects, etc.) in collaboration with officials of urban living. The EUREQUA project (2012-2017) implements a transdisciplinary approach because it focuses on 3 main observables (climate comfort, air quality and sound environment) and because it combines experimental, numerical and statistical methods. This paper focuses on one district particularly studied within the EUREQUA project, both experimentally and numerically. This paper also briefly expose the methodology and how qualitative and quantitative results are jointly processed and combined in order to make environmental criteria emerge in scenarii conception, through statistical data cross-analysis, feedback meetings with inhabitants and participative workshops