Conveners
Air Pollution and Health Effects: S1.1
- Daniel Westervelt (Columbia University)
Air Pollution and Health Effects: S1.2
- Oluyemi Toyinbo (University of Oulu)
Air Pollution and Health Effects: S1.3
- Oluyemi Toyinbo (University of Oulu)
Transport sector, which is made up of sub-sectors, that include roadways, railways, seaways, and airways contributes to ambient air pollution and poor air quality. This work focuses solely on road traffic-related air pollution in Africa. It reviews main pollutants and sources, and their impacts on health and the environment. It explores key driving factors, such as diverse transportation...
Besides homes, schools are primary environments for children.
The aims are fourfold: firstly, to assess the impact of indoor environmental quality IEQ on elementary school students by evaluating ventilation rates and thermal comfort, as well as the role of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Secondly, it aims to investigate school building practices related to cleaning,...
The work assesses how vehicular traffic pollution affects the cardiovascular and respiratory health of people living in Tema Community One. It links environmental and transportation issues to air quality and shows how contact with polluted air negatively affects health and social outcomes. Objectives focus on measuring the quality of the air, the spatial variation of pollution from selected...
Introduction: A rising worry is the deterioration of outdoor air quality, especially in urban residential areas. The main topic of this work is the measurement of significant air pollutants outdoor at Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria, such as CO2, NO2, O3, PM1, PM2.5, and PM10, as well as their correlation with the Air Quality Index (AQI). Research Question: This study's main research question is: What...
In developing countries, recycling of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has attracted much attention as a significant source of flame-retardants. In this study, ten air samples were collected in 2022 from five different locations to include an electronic waste dumpsite and control site in Lagos, Nigeria; to investigate the occurrence of a range of 7 congeners of Organophosphate Flame...
Processes controlling pollutant dispersion over complex terrain are much more complicated than over flat areas, as they are affected by atmospheric interactions with the orography at different spatial scales. In particular, thermally-driven daily-periodic winds produce circulation patterns and stability situations which are quite difficult to reproduce by numerical weather prediction models...
Abstract:
It has been reported that indoor air can exhibit higher levels of pollution than outdoor air. This is of significant concern given that people spend the majority of their time indoors. Various factors exert influence over household air pollution, including outdoor air quality, ventilation, building materials, and indoor activities such as cooking fuel choices, cooking methods such...
