Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution

Volume 1: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment

Mohammad Hadi Dehghani,Rama Rao Karri,Teresa Vera,Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780443160899
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Toxicología

Health 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

Table of contents

• 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
• Chapter 2. Effects of particulate matter on human health
• Chapter 3. Effects of outdoor air pollutants on plants and agricultural productivity
• Chapter 4. Environmental and health effects of acid rain
• Chapter 5. Environmental and health effects of global warming
• Chapter 6. Age-specific gender-based deposition of size-segregated particulate matter in the human respiratory tract
• Chapter 7. Epidemiological aspects of outdoor air pollution— link between air pollution and COVID-19
• Chapter 8. A review on the outdoor air pollutants in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India: sources, health effects and remediation
• Chapter 9. Socio-economic aspects of outdoor air pollution
• Chapter 10. Effects of urbanization and industrialization on air quality
• Chapter 11. Outdoor air pollution due to transportation, landfill, and incinerator
• Chapter 12. Introduction to meteorology, weather, and climate
• Chapter 13. Impact of the changing climate on air pollution, heat stress and human health
• Index