Assessment of the Status of Urban Air pollution And Its Impact on Human Health in the City of Kolkata

2005 ◽  
Vol 108 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 151-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrinal K. Ghose ◽  
R. Paul ◽  
R. K. Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City

Urban Air Pollution and its Influence on Human Health in Mega Cities of India

Epidemiology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (Suppl) ◽  
pp. S261-S262 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Nagdeve
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Mega Cities

Urban air pollution and The Country and the City

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
William Cavert
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
The City

VARIATIONS OF VEF1 AND PEAK FLOW MEASUREMENTS ON ATOPIC AND NON-ATOPIC CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH EXPOSURE TO URBAN AIR POLLUTION IN THE CITY OF SÄO PAULO, BRAZIL

Epidemiology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. S55
Author(s):  
J EM Correia ◽  
L Claudio ◽  
A T Imazawa ◽  
J Eluf-Neto
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Peak Flow ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Flow Measurements ◽  
The City

Urban air pollution and human health

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. A1-A2
Author(s):  
Alessandra Cincinelli ◽  
Athanasios Katsoyiannis
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air

scholarly journals Breathing in the polyrhythmic city: A spatiotemporal, rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution and its inequalities

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442094887
Author(s):  
Gordon Walker ◽  
Douglas Booker ◽  
Paul J Young
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Atmospheric Processes ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The City

Inspired by Lefebvre’s meditation on the rhythms seen from his apartment in Paris, we develop a novel rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution, its breathing-in and impact in vulnerable bodies. We conceptualise urban air pollution as entwined in its making and consequence with the diverse rhythms of technologies, social practices and socio-temporal structures, environmental and atmospheric processes, bodily movements in space and time, and rhythmically constituted corporeality. Through this interdisciplinary account we position urban air pollution as integral to the ‘beat’ of the city, both a product of and constituent part of its evolving spatiotemporal form. We build on this foundation to develop a polyrhythmic conceptualisation of how certain places and lives are more dominated by pollution than others. Unequal patternings are made through the structuring effects of rhythmic repetition and by fatal intersections between the rhythms of polluted air and unequal capacities to avoid harmful breathing in and to resist the arrhythmic corporeal consequences that can follow. Understanding inequalities as manifest not within a static landscape of spatial relations, but in sets of unequally unfolding and structured polyrhythmic relations has implications for revealing patterns of inequality and for extending evidence-making more deeply into how rhythms intersect. Which and whose rhythms are to be intervened in are also considered as key ethical and political questions. We draw out implications for activism and community action, and identify the potential for bringing rhythmanalysis into productive engagement with broader environmental justice concerns, including in relation to recent COVID-19 experiences.

Impact of 1.5 K global warming on urban air pollution and heat island with outlook on human health effects

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janos Mika ◽  
Peter Forgo ◽  
Laszlo Lakatos ◽  
Andras B Olah ◽  
Sandor Rapi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Human Health Effects

scholarly journals How to Use Hydrogen in a New Strategy to Mitigate Urban Air Pollution and Preserve Human Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 1007-1015
Author(s):  
Louiza Haddad ◽  
Zeroual Aouachria ◽  
Djamel Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Traffic Density ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Clean Energy Source

If transport is an essential means for the development of the economy, society and its mobility, it has the drawback of leading to significant atmospheric pollution. As traffic density is very high in large cities, air pollution is amplified by the various means of transport resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels. Urban air pollution is mainly caused by vehicles generating emissions harmful to human health. Our objective of this work is to analyze a strategy to eliminate or reduce the emission of these pollutants (NOx, CO, CO2) during combustion. This strategy aims to explore a clean energy source alternative to fossil fuels. This approach consists of completely replacing the internal combustion scalar with the engine powered by fuel cells using hydrogen. This motivates decision makers to choose hydrogen as an alternative fuel to protect the urban environment and the health human from air pollution. This study shows that it is possible to perfectly mitigate pollutants from urban transport systems by using a PEMFC as an alternative clean energy source. Analyze a strategy to eliminate or reduce the emissions of these pollutants (NOx, CO, CO2) during the combustion of full fossil fuel in vehicle engines. This strategy aims to exploit the energy vector represented by hydrogen in order to save human life in more populated areas and protect the environment. The pressure, temperature and concentration of each species (O2, H2 and H2O) are obtained from the resolution of the electrochemical model coupled to the dynamic model, which we do not present here.

scholarly journals Spatial distribution of gaseous pollutants (NO<sub>2</sub>, SO<sub>2</sub>, NH<sub>3</sub>, HNO<sub>3</sub> and O<sub>3</sub>) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Bahino ◽  
Veronique Yoboué ◽  
Corinne Galy-Lacaux ◽  
Marcellin Adon ◽  
Aristide Akpo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Average Concentration ◽  
Gaseous Pollutants ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
The City ◽  
Suburban Site

Abstract. This work is part of the DACCIWA FP7 program (Dynamics-Aerosol-Chemistry-Cloud Interactions in West Africa) in the framework of the work package 2 « Air Pollution and Health ». This study aims to characterize urban air pollution levels through the measurement of NO2, SO2, NH3, HNO3 and O3 in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d’Ivoire. Gases measurements are performed using INDAAF (International Network to study Deposition and Atmospheric chemistry in AFrica) passive samplers exposed in duplicate for two weeks periods. We performed an intensive measurement campaign in Abidjan from December 15th, 2015 to February 16th, 2016 during the dry season. Twenty-one sites were selected in the district of Abidjan to be representative of various anthropogenic and natural sources of air pollution in the city. We collected 672 samples of gas during this period. Results from the intensive campaign show that gas concentrations are strongly linked to pollution sources nearby and show a high spatial variability on the different sites of Abidjan. However, three gases present relative higher levels of concentrations at all the sites: NH3, NO2 and O3. NH3 average concentrations vary between 9.1 ± 1.7 ppb at a suburban site and 102.1 ± 9.1 ppb at a domestic fires site. NO2 mean concentration vary from 2.7 ± 0.1 ppb at a suburban site to 25.0 ± 1.7 ppb at an industrial site. We measured the two highest O3 concentration on the two coastal sites located in the southeast of the city with average concentration of 19.1 ± 1.7 ppb and 18.8 ± 3.0 ppb respectively for Gonzagueville and the Felix Houphouet-Boigny international airport. The SO2 average concentration never exceeds 7.2 ± 1.2 ppb at all the sites with 71.5 % of the sampling sites presenting concentrations ranged between 0.4 ppb and 1.9 ppb. The HNO3 average concentration is comprised between 0.2 ppb and 1.4 ppb. All these results were combined with meteorological parameters to provide the first mapping of gaseous pollutants at the scale of the district of Abidjan using the geostatistical analysis (ArcGIS software). Spatial distribution results emphasize the importance of the domestic fires source and the significant impact of the traffic emissions at the scale of the city. In addition, we propose in this work a first overview of gaseous SO2 and NO2 concentrations at the scale of several African cities from literature compared to our measurements. The daily SO2 standard of WHO is exceeded in most of the cities reported in the overview where concentrations range from 0.2 µg m−3 – 3662 µg m−3. Annual NO2 concentrations ranged from 2 µg m−3 – 175 µg m−3 are lower than the WHO threshold. As a conclusion, this study constitutes an original database to characterize urban air pollution and a first attempt toward a spatialization of the pollution levels at the scale of the metropolis of Abidjan. This work should draw the attention of the African public authorities to the necessity of air quality monitoring network in order to (1) to define national standards and to better control the pollutants emissions and (2) to investigate the impact on the health of the growing population of developing African countries

Urban Air Pollution and Human Health: How to Quantify the Potential Benefits from Citizens’ Behaviour Change?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Rodrigues ◽  
Sandra Rafael ◽  
S. Coelho ◽  
K. Oliveira ◽  
J. Ferreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Urban Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Potential Benefits
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