This study assessed the public's health risk awareness of urban air pollution triggered by three megacities in China, and the data are the responses from a sample size of 3868 megacity inhabitants from Shanghai, Nanchang and Wuhan. Descriptive analyses were used to summarize the respondents' demographics, perceived health risks from air pollution and sources of health-related knowledge on urban...

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution has become one of the greatest urban issues in China. Studies have shown that PM2.5 pollution is strongly related to the land use pattern at the micro-scale and optimizing the land use pattern has been suggested as an approach to mitigate PM2.5 pollution. However, there are only a few researches analyzing the effect of land use on PM2.5 pollution. This ...

Background: Current standards for fine particulates and nitrogen dioxide are under revision. Patients with cardiovascular disease have been identified as the largest group which need to be protected from effects of urban air pollution. Methods: We sought to estimate associations between indicators of urban air pollution and daily mortality using time series of daily TSP, PM10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year around two million people die annually due to the effects of atmospheric pollution (Tranfield & Walker, 2012). These estimates are based on epidemiological studies that showed associations between air pollution exposure and respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses and deaths. Special efforts thus have been made in order to reduce air...

OBJECTIVE Odor exposure is an environmental stressor that is responsible of many citizens complains about air pollution in non-urban areas. However, information about the exposure-response relation is scarce. One of the main challenges is to identify a measurable compound that can be related with odor annoyance responses. We investigated the association between regional and temporal variation o...

Managing vegetation in urban environments requires an understanding of its structure, atmospheric interactions and function. This has led to quantification and development of models to estimate the functions of urban vegetation, particularly the integrated effects that take place between vegetation and local atmospheres. The Urban FORest Effects (UFORE) model (developed in North America by the ...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Air pollution and property values 3. Noise and property values 4. View and property values 5. Neighbourhood facilities and property values 6. Zoning regulation and property values 7. Hedonic price modelling of environmental attributes on urban values in Hong Kong 7.1. Air pollution control mechanism in Hong Kong 7.2. Noise pollution control mechanism in Hong Kong 7.3...

BACKGROUND Assessing health effects from background exposure to air pollution is often hampered by the sparseness of pollution monitoring networks. However, regional atmospheric chemistry-transport models (CTMs) can provide pollution data with national coverage at fine geographical and temporal resolution. We used statistical simulation to compare the impact on epidemiological time-series analy...

Effects of methane outgassing on the Black Sea atmosphere K. Kourtidis, I. Kioutsioukis, and S. Rapsomanikis Lab. of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Demokritus University of Thrace, 67100 Xanthi, Greece Received: 7 February 2006 – Accepted: 2 March 2006 – Published: 9 May 2006 Correspondence to: K. Kourtidis ...