| Author | : J.W.S. Longhurst |
| Publisher | : WIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2014-07-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1845647831 |
The proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, builds upon the prestigious outcomes of the 21 preceding meetings beginning in 1993.Topics covered include: Air pollution modelling; Air pollution mitigation; Air pollution management; Aerosols and particles; Emission studies.
| Author | : Fabio Capello |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 677 |
| Release | : 2018-02-21 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 3319627317 |
This book examines in detail the clinical implications of those diseases that either are primarily triggered by air pollution or represent direct consequences of air pollutants. The aim is to provide medical practitioners with practical solutions to issues in diagnosis and treatment while simultaneously furnishing other interested parties with crucial information on the field. The book introduces the concept that air pollution-related diseases constitute a new class of pathologies. A wide range of conditions mainly attributable to air pollution are discussed, covering different body systems and pollution impacts in subsets of the population. In addition to presenting state of the art overviews of clinical aspects, the book carefully examines the implications of current knowledge for social and public health strategies aimed at disease prevention and prophylaxis. The Clinical Handbook of Air Pollution-Related Diseases will greatly assist doctors and healthcare workers when dealing with the consequences of air pollution in their everyday practice and will provide researchers, industry, and policymakers with valuable facts and insights.
| Author | : Kirk R. Smith |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2013-03-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1461308917 |
| Author | : Weltgesundheitsorganisation |
| Publisher | : World Health Organization |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2021-09-07 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9240034226 |
The main objective of these updated global guidelines is to offer health-based air quality guideline levels, expressed as long-term or short-term concentrations for six key air pollutants: PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. In addition, the guidelines provide interim targets to guide reduction efforts of these pollutants, as well as good practice statements for the management of certain types of PM (i.e., black carbon/elemental carbon, ultrafine particles, particles originating from sand and duststorms). These guidelines are not legally binding standards; however, they provide WHO Member States with an evidence-informed tool, which they can use to inform legislation and policy. Ultimately, the goal of these guidelines is to help reduce levels of air pollutants in order to decrease the enormous health burden resulting from the exposure to air pollution worldwide.
| Author | : K. Omasa |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 4431683887 |
Air pollution is ubiquitous in industrialized societies, causing a host of environmental problems. It is thus essential to monitor and reduce pollution levels. A number of plant species already are being exploited as detectors (for phytomonitoring) and as scavengers (for phytoremediation) of air pollutants. With advances in biotechnology, it is now feasible to modify plants for a wider range of phytomonitoring and phytoremediation applications. Air Pollution and Plant Biotechnology presents recent results in this field, including plant responses during phytomonitoring, pollution-resistant plant species, imaging diagnosis of plant responses, and the use of novel transgenic plants, along with reviews of basic plant physiology and biochemistry where appropriate. Researchers and students working in plant biotechnology and the environmental sciences or considering new areas of investigation will find this volume a valuable reference.
| Author | : Shanthi Nataraj |
| Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 119 |
| Release | : 2013-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0833083996 |
This report assesses what evidence exists for the ways in which local air quality could influence local economic growth and how those effects might be relevant to the Pittsburgh region.
| Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Indoor Pollutants |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : |
Discusses pollution from tobacco smoke, radon and radon progeny, asbestos and other fibers, formaldehyde, indoor combustion, aeropathogens and allergens, consumer products, moisture, microwave radiation, ultraviolet radiation, odors, radioactivity, and dirt and discusses means of controlling or eliminating them.
| Author | : F.T. Nieuwstadt |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9401091129 |
The study of turbulence in the atmosphere has seen considerable progress in the last decade. To put it briefly: boundary-layer meteorology, the branch of atmospheric science that concentrates on turbulence in the lower atmosphere, has moved from the surface layer into the boundary layer itself. The progress has been made on all fronts: theoretical, numerical and observational. On the other hand, air pollution modeling has not seen such a rapid evolution. It has not benefited as much as it should have from the increasing knowledge in the field of atmospheric turbulence. Air pollution modeling is still in many ways based on observations and theories of the surface layer only. This book aims to bring the reader up to date on recent advances in boundary-layer meteorology and to pave the path for applications in air pollution dispersion problems. The text originates from the material presented during a short course on Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Pollution Modeling held in The Hague during September 1981. This course was sponsored and organized by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, xi xii PREFACE to which both editors are affiliated. The Netherlands Government Ministry of Health and Environmental Protection and the Council of Europe also gave support.
| Author | : Bhola R. Gurjar |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 2010-06-22 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1439809631 |
Air pollution is recognized as one of the leading contributors to the global environmental burden of disease, even in countries with relatively low concentrations of air pollution. Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts examines the effect of this complex problem on human health and the environment in different settings around the world. I
