Air Pollution Planning and Zoning

Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...

Air Pollution Considerations in Traffic Planning and Engineering

IN T R O D U C T IO N In recent years there has been a growing concern about the rapidly deteriorating environment in the urban areas of this country in terms of air, water, and noise pollution. Automobile transportation has been found to be a significant factor in the deterioration of the urban environment, particularly in regard to air pollution. In general, con­ sidering the total tonnage of...

Air Pollution and Health

Air pollution and health.

OBJECTIVE To review the effects of air pollution on health, with special reference to data obtained locally in Hong Kong. DATA SOURCES Medline literature search (1960-1999), websites of the World Health Organization and Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, and a report from the Sub-Working Group on the Review of Hong Kong's Air Quality Objectives, 1999. STUDY SELECTION Key words ...

Asthma and air pollution

During the last decades research all over the world has highlighted the deleterious effects of pollution on respiratory health of adults and children. Nevertheless, air pollution still represents a significant threat to health. Children are more sensitive than adults to pollutants for several factors: increased respiration relative to body size; physiologic immaturity of respiratory and immunol...