Air pollution : sources, impacts and controls /

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Imprint:Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CAB International, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (vii, 224 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12399177
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Other authors / contributors:Saxena, Pallavi, editor.
Nāīka, Vaiśālī, editor.
ISBN:1786393905
9781786393913
1786393913
9781786393906
9781786393890
1786393891
9781787857230
1787857239
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2020).
Summary:This book with 12 chapters aims to provide a broad overview of the issues surrounding air pollution and how to control and monitor pollution levels. Beginning with a brief background on the subject, the book moves on to discuss global emissions, with an emphasis on megacities and their effects. Possible pollution control measures and methods of air pollution measurement and modelling are also explored. The book ends with descriptions of the various indices used for assessing air quality with a focus on human health impacts, and a discussion on policy making to control air pollution. The book will be useful to students of environmental science and atmospheric science, as well as environmental consultants and researchers interested in air quality
Other form:Print version: Air pollution. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CAB International, [2019] 9781786393890