Organization 1 Beijing Municipal Commission of Education 北京市教育委员会
What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project? Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (BMCE) is being profiled. It’s in charge of citywide public education and formulating educational policies. Some of them are concerning with environmental health.
What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health? It hosted “Low-Carbon Lifestyle, Join Environmental Protection” science knowledge contests for elementary and middle school students that started 2011. The contest aims to promote simple methods and ways of reducing carbon emission and protect environmental through educational and interesting contest questions. The contest questions are related to environmental protection, ecology knowledge, low-carbon lifestyles and environment-friendly urban development in Beijing.
What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed? 2011 - First Low-Carbon Lifestyle and Environmental Protection Knowledge Contest had almost 30,000 elementary and middle school contestants. 2012 – Second Contest added 3-minute spontaneous presentations about themes relate to low-carbon lifestyle to the contest. 37,000 students took part in the contest. 2012.4 - Beijing Forestry University start "Green Bridge" and "Green Long March" to promote environmental service volunteering and encourage students and teacher to participate in scientific expedition of the Yellow River. (<http://www.bjedu.gov.cn/publish/portal27/tab1723/info31308.htm>)
2013 – Third Contest included collecting photograph relating to ecological civilization and beauty of China and fieldwork in environmental protections sites in addition to science knowledge contest. 2015 - Beijing Primary and Secondary Low-Carbon Environmental Series of Educational Activities Guidebook 2015.7.31 - SINOPEC Beijing Oil Products Company held environmental knowledge contest on laws and regulations, knowledge of oil recycling equipment. Majority of the participants is its employees. (<http://www.bj.xinhuanet.com/bjyw/2015-07/31/c_1116106634.htm>)
Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches? No. But it has an innovative program called “2015 caravan into Universities low-carbon energy saving Entrepreneurship Competition” (2015节能环保低碳大篷车进高校创业大赛). The program incorporates governmental policies with multiple area such as professional training, college students start-up support, environmental product marketing. It aims to develop new environmental technologies and introduce cutting-edge research results to public.
What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created? I can’t find much data that it has collected online. But I find that they have the data on the amount of students and total assets in each level of education. Amount of students in higher education in Beijing is larger others combined and grant on research and teaching in higher education is significantly larger than others. This may be why it focuses on college students’ startups.
What research has the organization produce or draw on on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade? 2010-Research on Development of Practical Innovative People in Higher Education 高等教育应用型创新人才培养研究
2010-Research on Social Classes in Continue-Growing System for Beijing Middle and Elementary School Students 北京市中小学生社会大课堂可持续发展机制研究
What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care? They rely on educational low-carbon promoting atmosphere in lower education and research grant, student initiatives in environmental technology in higher education.
What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma? This organization works within the urban area predominated by universities and colleges. This situation directs them to focus on innovative abilities of students in higher education and create environment-friendly campus atmosphere that leads students and faculties to innovations in the environmental area.
What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health? It collected statistics shows that Beijing has 179 higher education institute and they have 45,348,548,500 CNY (7.12 billion USD) funding for research and education.
I guess that strong public response to exposure of local PM 2.5 in 2011 made Beijing authorities reconstruct their policies' emphasis. They put more effort into promoting environmental awareness so environmental related education emerged at that time.
What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health? BMCE is a government organization so it receives funding primarily from government. This leads to more corporations with other governmental commissions such as the National Development and Reform Commission. Together they hosted “2015 caravan into Universities low-carbon energy saving Entrepreneurship Competition” mentioned before.
What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health? Since BMCE is directly affiliated with The People's Government of Beijing City, it started to focus on more air quality education and technology innovation when governmental policies concentrate on air quality control. Governmental policy changes may result from intense public response to Beijing air quality.
What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health? Severe air pollution in Beijing made BMCE introduce an Emergency Measures for Heavy Air Pollution in Beijing in which states classes will be suspended if air quality is on red alert. This will cause issues about event scheduling and raise concerns about safety of students if the parents are off working.
What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health? The governance that might be called for being more research grant on environment-related projects since most of the universities in Beijing are owned by government.
How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization? The Asthma File can provide educational information to promote air quality and public health in schools. The Asthma File can also impart some valuable research results on Asthma to universities in Beijing that are doing similar researches.
Organization 2 Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau 北京市公安局
What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau (BMPSB) is being profiled. BMPSB carries out air quality regulations in more specific situations.
What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
BMPSB works more on a personal basis to improve environmental public health. For example, according to the Beijing Daily on Jan. 29. 2013, traffic police escorts two premature babies for 24 km through the heavy smog to the hospital in time. It also implements regulation related to air quality control on a daily basis such as traffic control on governmental service cars in heavy pollution days.
What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
03/10/2013 Traffic Police in Beijing was authorized wear mask to work to protect their health from smog.
03/28/2014 Notice regarding traffic management measures on the some of the vehicles to reduce emissions (关于对部分机动车采取交通管理措施降低污染物排放的通告)
Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
No, BMPSB has the main focus on city’s security so it doesn’t have series of event stressing environmental public health.
What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
They didn’t collect any data regarding environmental public health.
What research has the organization produce or draw on on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
It supports the Research Center for Beijing Social & Public Security that has conducted following researches.
12/23/2012 - Beijing Traffic Management Bureau (BTMB) Optimization and Allocation of Police Resources北京市交管局警力资源优化与配置研究
6/31/2013 – Technology Based on Active Traffic Management (ATM) in Beijing Suburban Highway Traffic Control 基于主动交通管理（ATM）的北京城郊高速公路交通控制技术
What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
It relies on individual effort from the police to ensure public health on heavy-polluted days. Cooperating with Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau (BMEPB), it also punishes factories that illegally emitted pollutant directly into the air or water.
What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
It works in the heavy polluted urban environment. In order to prevent police get respiratory disease such as Asthma, BMPSB allow police to wear mask to work.
It's a base-level law enforcement department, which usually interacts with local residents and reenforces laws and regulations on daily bases. This characteristic enables them to provide support to civilian on hazardously polluted days and shut down factories that don't follow emission standards.
What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
Heavy polluted air is causing health problems in traffic police since they spend most of their time during work on the street. Wearing the mask, police would have better working conditions and less vulnerable to respiratory disease.
What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The funding from The People's Government of Beijing City enables their work. As a result, it works alongside with other municipal bureaus such as BMEPB to fight illegal pollution activities.
What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
Heavy polluted air reduced productivity and vigilance of traffic police. So they changed police clothing regulation to ameliorate the situation.
What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
BMPSB need to collaborate with BMEPB to fight illegal activities in air pollution, which in some special cases may be challenging.
What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
It calls for close collaboration between BMPSB with other governmental agencies to execute joint enforcement of environmental regulations.
How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma Files can’t supplement this agency's approach to environmental health. But The Asthma Files probably can provide some insight about the asthma rate among the traffic police to raise concerns about them in public. So the traffic police would have better working conditions and personal health. minutes
What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (BMCE) is being profiled. It’s in charge of citywide public education and formulating educational policies. Some of them are concerning with environmental health.
What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
It hosted “Low-Carbon Lifestyle, Join Environmental Protection” science knowledge contests for elementary and middle school students that started 2011. The contest aims to promote simple methods and ways of reducing carbon emission and protect environmental through educational and interesting contest questions. The contest questions are related to environmental protection, ecology knowledge, low-carbon lifestyles and environment-friendly urban development in Beijing.
What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
2011 - First Low-Carbon Lifestyle and Environmental Protection Knowledge Contest had almost 30,000 elementary and middle school contestants.
2012 – Second Contest added 3-minute spontaneous presentations about themes relate to low-carbon lifestyle to the contest. 37,000 students took part in the contest.
2012.4 - Beijing Forestry University start "Green Bridge" and "Green Long March" to promote environmental service volunteering and encourage students and teacher to participate in scientific expedition of the Yellow River. (<http://www.bjedu.gov.cn/publish/portal27/tab1723/info31308.htm>)
2013 – Third Contest included collecting photograph relating to ecological civilization and beauty of China and fieldwork in environmental protections sites in addition to science knowledge contest.
2015 - Beijing Primary and Secondary Low-Carbon Environmental Series of Educational Activities Guidebook
2015.7.31 - SINOPEC Beijing Oil Products Company held environmental knowledge contest on laws and regulations, knowledge of oil recycling equipment. Majority of the participants is its employees. (<http://www.bj.xinhuanet.com/bjyw/2015-07/31/c_1116106634.htm>)
http://dthb.bjedu.cn/
Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
No. But it has an innovative program called “2015 caravan into Universities low-carbon energy saving Entrepreneurship Competition” (2015节能环保低碳大篷车进高校创业大赛). The program incorporates governmental policies with multiple area such as professional training, college students start-up support, environmental product marketing. It aims to develop new environmental technologies and introduce cutting-edge research results to public.
What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
I can’t find much data that it has collected online. But I find that they have the data on the amount of students and total assets in each level of education. Amount of students in higher education in Beijing is larger others combined and grant on research and teaching in higher education is significantly larger than others. This may be why it focuses on college students’ startups.
http://zfxxgk.beijing.gov.cn/columns/63/3/565666.html
What research has the organization produce or draw on on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
2010-Research on Development of Practical Innovative People in Higher Education 高等教育应用型创新人才培养研究
2010-Research on Social Classes in Continue-Growing System for Beijing Middle and Elementary School Students 北京市中小学生社会大课堂可持续发展机制研究
What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
They rely on educational low-carbon promoting atmosphere in lower education and research grant, student initiatives in environmental technology in higher education.
What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
This organization works within the urban area predominated by universities and colleges. This situation directs them to focus on innovative abilities of students in higher education and create environment-friendly campus atmosphere that leads students and faculties to innovations in the environmental area.
What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
It collected statistics shows that Beijing has 179 higher education institute and they have 45,348,548,500 CNY (7.12 billion USD) funding for research and education.
I guess that strong public response to exposure of local PM 2.5 in 2011 made Beijing authorities reconstruct their policies' emphasis. They put more effort into promoting environmental awareness so environmental related education emerged at that time.
What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
BMCE is a government organization so it receives funding primarily from government. This leads to more corporations with other governmental commissions such as the National Development and Reform Commission. Together they hosted “2015 caravan into Universities low-carbon energy saving Entrepreneurship Competition” mentioned before.
What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
Since BMCE is directly affiliated with The People's Government of Beijing City, it started to focus on more air quality education and technology innovation when governmental policies concentrate on air quality control. Governmental policy changes may result from intense public response to Beijing air quality.
What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
Severe air pollution in Beijing made BMCE introduce an Emergency Measures for Heavy Air Pollution in Beijing in which states classes will be suspended if air quality is on red alert. This will cause issues about event scheduling and raise concerns about safety of students if the parents are off working.
What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
The governance that might be called for being more research grant on environment-related projects since most of the universities in Beijing are owned by government.
How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma File can provide educational information to promote air quality and public health in schools. The Asthma File can also impart some valuable research results on Asthma to universities in Beijing that are doing similar researches.
Organization 2 Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau 北京市公安局
What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau (BMPSB) is being profiled. BMPSB carries out air quality regulations in more specific situations.
What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
BMPSB works more on a personal basis to improve environmental public health. For example, according to the Beijing Daily on Jan. 29. 2013, traffic police escorts two premature babies for 24 km through the heavy smog to the hospital in time. It also implements regulation related to air quality control on a daily basis such as traffic control on governmental service cars in heavy pollution days.
What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
03/10/2013 Traffic Police in Beijing was authorized wear mask to work to protect their health from smog.
03/28/2014 Notice regarding traffic management measures on the some of the vehicles to reduce emissions (关于对部分机动车采取交通管理措施降低污染物排放的通告)
Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
No, BMPSB has the main focus on city’s security so it doesn’t have series of event stressing environmental public health.
What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
They didn’t collect any data regarding environmental public health.
What research has the organization produce or draw on on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
It supports the Research Center for Beijing Social & Public Security that has conducted following researches.
12/23/2012 - Beijing Traffic Management Bureau (BTMB) Optimization and Allocation of Police Resources北京市交管局警力资源优化与配置研究
6/31/2013 – Technology Based on Active Traffic Management (ATM) in Beijing Suburban Highway Traffic Control 基于主动交通管理（ATM）的北京城郊高速公路交通控制技术
http://www.cppsu.edu.cn/cfm_data/shownews_sd.cfm?newsid=1661
What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
It relies on individual effort from the police to ensure public health on heavy-polluted days. Cooperating with Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau (BMEPB), it also punishes factories that illegally emitted pollutant directly into the air or water.
What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
It works in the heavy polluted urban environment. In order to prevent police get respiratory disease such as Asthma, BMPSB allow police to wear mask to work.
It's a base-level law enforcement department, which usually interacts with local residents and reenforces laws and regulations on daily bases. This characteristic enables them to provide support to civilian on hazardously polluted days and shut down factories that don't follow emission standards.
What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
Heavy polluted air is causing health problems in traffic police since they spend most of their time during work on the street. Wearing the mask, police would have better working conditions and less vulnerable to respiratory disease.
What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The funding from The People's Government of Beijing City enables their work. As a result, it works alongside with other municipal bureaus such as BMEPB to fight illegal pollution activities.
What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
Heavy polluted air reduced productivity and vigilance of traffic police. So they changed police clothing regulation to ameliorate the situation.
What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
BMPSB need to collaborate with BMEPB to fight illegal activities in air pollution, which in some special cases may be challenging.
What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
It calls for close collaboration between BMPSB with other governmental agencies to execute joint enforcement of environmental regulations.
How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma Files can’t supplement this agency's approach to environmental health. But The Asthma Files probably can provide some insight about the asthma rate among the traffic police to raise concerns about them in public. So the traffic police would have better working conditions and personal health.
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