scholarly journals Urban Air Quality: Case Study in the City of Brasília/DF, Capital of Brazil

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Correia Marques ◽  
Marcia Silva de Oliveira ◽  
Fernando Glenadel Braga ◽  
Margarida L. R. Liberato
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Citizen as Sensors' Commitment in Urban Public Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendoline l'Her ◽  
Myriam Servières ◽  
Daniel Siret
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Quality Issue ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
The Impact

Based on a case study in Rennes, the article presents how a group of urban public actors re-uses methods and technology from citizen sciences to raise the urban air quality issue in the public debate. The project gives a group of inhabitants the opportunity to follow air quality training and proceed PM2.5µm measurements. The authors question the impact of the ongoing hybridisation between citizen science and urban public action on participants' commitment. The authors present how the use of PM2.5-sensors during 11 weeks led to a disengagement phenomenon, even if the authors observe a strong participation to workshops. These results come from an interdisciplinary methodology using observations, interviews, and data analyses.

Influence of Traffic Emissions on Urban Air Quality: A Case Study of a Medium Sized City

2018 ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggelos Aggelakakis ◽  
Afroditi Anagnostopoulou ◽  
Alkiviadis Tromaras ◽  
Maria Boile ◽  
Niki Mantzinou
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Traffic Emissions ◽  
Urban Air

scholarly journals Exploring the potential for “urban air quality transition management” in the EU – lessons from the City of Aachen (Germany)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Szabo-Müller
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Science Field ◽  
The City ◽  
The Eu

AbstractAir pollution is one of the most important global sustainability and health challenges. In response to this, the European Union (EU) initiated with its Directive 2008/50/EC a new era of (urban) air quality management (UAQM) and introduced air quality plans and short term action plans as major formal planning instruments. However, these efforts still fail to achieve their target. Independently, sustainability transitions research emerged as a major science field, suggesting urban transition management (UTM) as an effective governance and planning approach for steering transformative urban change. Hence, the overall query this paper puts forward is, whether UAQM could be enhanced by UTM? This leads to an empirical and a conceptual question: 1) How transformative is current UAQM, i.e. how does it contribute to a transition process? 2) How could UAQM and UTM be combined to create an ‘urban air quality transition management’? Drawing on a conceptual discussion of both frameworks, an explorative case study of UAQM in the EU and the City of Aachen (Germany) reveals that UAQM and UTM seem to have many similarities at a superficial level, but differ significantly in detail. They are mostly complementary because each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses, so that neither of them could achieve the targeted transition alone. Future research should therefore focus on comparative transformative research in ‘urban air quality transition management labs’ to develop integrated approaches. Policy should both legally facilitate such experiments and deliver sufficient funding for enhanced UAQM in general.

Modeling study of biomass burning plumes and their impact on urban air quality; a case study of Santiago de Chile

2017 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 79-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.C. Cuchiara ◽  
B. Rappenglück ◽  
M.A. Rubio ◽  
E. Lissi ◽  
E. Gramsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Biomass Burning ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
Modeling Study

scholarly journals Urban air quality forecasting based on multi-dimensional collaborative Support Vector Regression (SVR): A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. e0179763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing-Chun Liu ◽  
Arihant Binaykia ◽  
Pei-Chann Chang ◽  
Manoj Kumar Tiwari ◽  
Cheng-Chin Tsao
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Collaborative Support ◽  
Air Quality Forecasting

Optimization model for urban air quality policy design: A case study in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 101385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Sefair ◽  
Mónica Espinosa ◽  
Eduardo Behrentz ◽  
Andrés L. Medaglia
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Quality Policy
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