Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution
Volume 1: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment
- 1st Edition - April 2, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao Karri, Teresa Vera, Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 0 8 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 0 8 9 - 9
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Request a sales quoteHealth and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution is part of a series of three volumes for Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment. Volume 1 discusses the adverse consequences of ambient air pollutants on human health, animals, plants, and structures.
This book examines the production of ambient air pollutants in the environment. It begins with an overview of the classifications, sources, and occurrences of outdoor air pollutants. This book covers meteorological, climate, and topographical factors affecting air pollution, discusses how urbanization and industrialization affect air quality, and explores how climate conditions like global warming, acid rain, and airborne particulate matter impact human health. It also looks at epidemiology studies and socioeconomic aspects of outdoor air pollution, estimating health and cost effects, air quality indices, guidelines, standards, and information networks of ambient air pollutants. With contributors from experts in the field, this book is a valuable reference for academicians, researchers, and students in environmental health, public health, and occupational health, as well as environmental engineers, meteorologists, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and environmental toxicologists.
- Discusses both causes of ambient air pollution and the toxicological impact on human health
- Covers the health risk assessment of ambient air with an emphasis on the elements, exposure, and risk management
- Examines air quality management and other ambient air pollution solutions
- Discusses the environmental effects of ambient air pollutants like climate change and global warming
- Examines the epidemiology studies, estimating health and cost effects
Environmental toxicologists, environmental scientists, analytical and environmental chemists, epidemiologists, public health professionals
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- About the editors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Classification, sources, and occurrence of outdoor air pollutants: a comprehensive overview
- Abstract
- Acronyms and molecular formulas
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Classification and types of outdoor air pollutants
- 1.3 Sources of outdoor air pollutants
- 1.4 Transport and dispersion of air pollutants
- 1.5 Occurrence of outdoor air pollutants
- 1.6 Regulations and mitigation strategies for outdoor air pollutants
- 1.7 Monitoring and data collection for outdoor air pollutants
- 1.8 Future outlook for outdoor air pollutants
- 1.9 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2. Effects of particulate matter on human health
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Effects of particulate matter on
- 2.3 Estimation of health impacts
- 2.4 Imaging of the effects of particulate matter
- 2.5 Chronic effects at current PM level
- 2.6 Potential health effects from exposure to particulate matter
- 2.7 Effects on mortality at current pm levels
- 2.8 Visibility reduction
- 2.9 Specific air pollutants and associated health effects
- 2.10 Effects of heavy metal constituents of particulate matter on human health
- 2.11 Strategies to control
- 2.12 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 3. Effects of outdoor air pollutants on plants and agricultural productivity
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Sources of pollutants in the atmosphere and their impacts on plants
- 3.3 Economic evaluation of crop loss due to air pollution in different countries
- 3.4 Bioremediation methods of air pollutants
- 3.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4. Environmental and health effects of acid rain
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Environmental effect of acid rain
- 4.3 Health effects of acid rain
- 4.4 Preventions for acid rain
- 4.5 Summary and conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 5. Environmental and health effects of global warming
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Environmental effects of global warming
- 5.3 Health effects of global warming
- 5.4 Mitigation and adaptation strategies
- 5.5 Summary and conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 6. Age-specific gender-based deposition of size-segregated particulate matter in the human respiratory tract
- Abstract
- Abbreviations
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Methodology
- 6.3 Results and discussion
- 6.4 Limitations of the study
- 6.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7. Epidemiological aspects of outdoor air pollution— link between air pollution and COVID-19
- Abstract
- List of acronyms
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Biomechanism of air pollutants affecting the transmission and severity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
- 7.3 Air pollution and COVID-19 outcomes
- 7.4 Methodological limitations and recent advances
- 7.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8. A review on the outdoor air pollutants in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India: sources, health effects and remediation
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Source of outdoor air pollutants
- 8.3 Scenario of the outdoor air pollutants
- 8.4 Mitigations and recommendations
- 8.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9. Socio-economic aspects of outdoor air pollution
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Socio-economic impacts of outdoor air pollution
- 9.3 Socio impact of outdoor air pollution
- 9.4 Mitigation and adaptation strategies for outdoor air pollution
- 9.5 Case studies
- 9.6 Future directions
- 9.7 Climate change and air pollution
- 9.8 Indoor air pollution
- 9.9 Air pollution and social disparities
- 9.10 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10. Effects of urbanization and industrialization on air quality
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Urban-industrial air pollution and the impacts: country case studies
- 10.3 Urban-industrial atmospheric pollution challenges: environmental, social, and economic aspects
- 10.4 Urban-industrial air pollution mitigation strategy
- 10.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11. Outdoor air pollution due to transportation, landfill, and incinerator
- Abstract
- List of acronyms
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Transportation-related air pollution
- 11.3 Landfills-related air pollution
- 11.4 Particulate matter
- 11.5 Polychlorinated biphenyl
- 11.6 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- 11.7 Dioxins and furans
- 11.8 Volatile organic compounds
- 11.9 Incinerators-related air pollution
- 11.10 Environmental transport and exposure pathways
- 11.11 Health and ecological impacts of outdoor air pollutants from transportation, landfill, and waste incinerators
- 11.12 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 12. Introduction to meteorology, weather, and climate
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Weather and climate
- 12.3 Effects of climate
- 12.4 Monitoring climate and weather
- 12.5 Air quality and climate change
- 12.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13. Impact of the changing climate on air pollution, heat stress and human health
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Impact of climate change on air pollution exposure and human health
- 13.3 Impact of climate change on heat stress
- 13.4 Vulnerable communities
- 13.5 Future projections of the impacts
- 13.6 Mitigation and adaptation need to avert the impacts
- 13.7 Maladaptation
- 13.8 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 2, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 408
- No. of pages (eBook): 250
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443160882
- eBook ISBN: 9780443160899
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Mohammad Hadi Dehghani
Prof. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interest is environmental science. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential environmental sciences for the years 2021–23.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, IranRK
Rama Rao Karri
Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a professor (senior assistant) in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He has over 18 years of experience in academia, industry, and research. He has published 200+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology of Brunei, IndiaTV
Teresa Vera
Dr. Teresa Vera is a chemical researcher with the CEAM Foundation at the EUPHORE installation (European Photoreactor), one of the largest research facilities in Spain and Europe to study atmospheric chemical processes. She obtained her PhD from the Valencia University and has more than 25 years of experience in the area of atmospheric chemistry.
Affiliations and expertise
Chemical Researcher, Fundación CEAM (EUPHORE Lab), SpainSH
Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan
Prof. Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan is a professor of air pollution chemistry in the Air Pollution Research Department at the Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Centre in Dokki, Giza, Egypt. Her main field of interest is air pollution monitoring and measurements, atmospheric photochemical reactions, the atmosphere's chemistry and chemical composition, and the study of pollutants in urban, industrial, and rural areas. She has about 30 years of experience in the area of atmospheric chemistry.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Air Pollution Chemistry in Air Pollution Research Department, Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Centre, EgyptRead Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on ScienceDirect