the air quality in shiraz was assessed based on a one-week passive sampling campaign.during the first week of the summer 2003, about 400 passive samplers were used in groups of two andthree, so that 187 sampling stations covered all of shiraz. pollutant gases including so2, no2 and btx(benzene, toluene and xylene) were sampled by diffusive sampling tubes. collected samples wereanalyzed and poll...

The National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act of 2004 states that people have the right to clean air and a healthy environment. Residents of low-income settlements are exposed to high concentrations of indoor air pollution due to the burning of solid fuels such as low-grade coal and wood for space heating and cooking. Long term exposure leads to degradation in the quality of life exper...

drastic model has been used to map groundwater vulnerability to pollution in many areas. since this method is used in different places without any changes, it cannot consider the effects of pollution type and characteristics. therefore, the method needs to be calibrated and corrected for a specific aquifer and pollution. in the present research, the rates of drastic parameters have been correct...

This chapter describes how estimates of air pollution emissions are transformed into ambient concentration of pollution, further translated into exposure and health impacts on a population, and finally expressed in damages. Different trade and environmental policy menus lead to different levels of pollution emissions and income. For each menu the emissions levels translate into specific mortali...

INTRODUCTION This study focused on using analytical and numerical models to develop and manage groundwater resources, and predict the effects of management measurements in the groundwater system. Movement of contaminants can be studied based on groundwater flow characteristics. This study can be used for prediction of ion concentration and evaluation of groundwater pollution as the theoretical ...

A modeling study using hourly meteorological and pollution concentration data from across the coterminous United States demonstrates that urban trees remove large amounts of air pollution that consequently improve urban air quality. Pollution removal (O3, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO) varied among cities with total annual air pollution removal by US urban trees estimated at 711,000 metric tons ($3.8 bill...