Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution Volume 1: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment

Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution is part of a series of three volumes for Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment. Volume 1 discusses the adverse consequences of ambient air pollutants on human health, animals, plants, and structures. This book examines the production of ambient air pollutants in the environment. It begins with an overview of the classifications, sources, and occurrences of outdoor air pollutants. This book covers meteorological, climate, and topographical factors affecting air pollution, discusses how urbanization and industrialization affect air quality, and explores how climate conditions like global warming, acid rain, and airborne particulate matter impact human health. It also looks at epidemiology studies and socioeconomic aspects of outdoor air pollution, estimating health and cost effects, air quality indices, guidelines, standards, and information networks of ambient air pollutants. With contributors from experts in the field, this book is a valuable reference for academicians, researchers, and students in environmental health, public health, and occupational health, as well as environmental engineers, meteorologists, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and environmental toxicologists.

1. Classification, sources, and occurrence of outdoor air pollutants Salwa Kamal Hassan and Rama Rao Karri 2. Effects of particulate matter on human health Shabnam Ahamadi I, Soumya Ghosh, Samar Sami AlKafaas, Samah Abdel Aziz, Esraa E. Ammar, Mohamed I. Elsalahaty, Heba Bedair, Andrew Oroke, Alhadji Malloum, Sina Pourebrahimi and Mai Mahmoud Zafer 3. Effects of outdoor air pollutants on plants and agricultural productivity Zeinab Rafie-Rad I, Taqi Raza, Neal S. Eash, Maryam Moradi-Khajevand and Majid Moradkhani 4. Environmental and health effects of acid rain Sivamani Sivalingam, Vishal G and Anush B 5. Environmental and health effects of global warming Sivamani Sivalingam, Harish A and Roshinth Selva M 6. Gender and Age-Based Assessment of Respiratory Tract Exposure Risk to Urban Commuter Particulate Matter: A Comparative Evaluation of Dosimetry Models ramsundram.civil@kct.ac.in Ramsundram 7. Epidemiological aspects of outdoor air pollution-Link between air pollution and COVID-19 Avik Kumar Sam, Harish Chandra Phuleria, Swapnali Patil and Siuli Mukhopadhyay 8. Meta-analyses of outdoor air pollutants in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: Sources, Health effects and Remediation. Anupma Kumari 9. Socio-economic aspects of outdoor air pollution Suman Mishra, Zainab Mushtaq and Pargin Bangotra 10. Effects of urbanization and industrialization on air quality Nawhath Thanvisitthpon, Kraiwuth Kallawicha, and H.Jasmine Chao 11. Outdoor air pollution due to transportation, landfill and incinerators Ratna Dwi Puji Astuti and Annisa Utami Rauf 12. Introduction to meteorological, climate and topographical factors affecting air pollution Nawhath Thanvisitthpon, Kraiwuth Kallawicha, and H.Jasmine Chao 13. Impact of the changing climate on air pollution and heat stress – A comprehensive review Sourangsu Chowdhury, Kristin Aunan, Abhishek Upadhyay, Ekta Chaudhary and Iulia Marginean

Prof. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interest is environmental science. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential environmental sciences for the years 2021–23.

Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a professor (senior assistant) in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He has over 18 years of experience in academia, industry, and research. He has published 200+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Dr. Teresa Vera is a chemical researcher with the CEAM Foundation at the EUPHORE installation (European Photoreactor), one of the largest research facilities in Spain and Europe to study atmospheric chemical processes. She obtained her PhD from the Valencia University and has more than 25 years of experience in the area of atmospheric chemistry.

Prof. Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan is a professor of air pollution chemistry in the Air Pollution Research Department at the Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Centre in Dokki, Giza, Egypt. Her main field of interest is air pollution monitoring and measurements, atmospheric photochemical reactions, the atmosphere's chemistry and chemical composition, and the study of pollutants in urban, industrial, and rural areas. She has about 30 years of experience in the area of atmospheric chemistry.

• Discusses both causes of ambient air pollution and the toxicological impact on human health
• Covers the health risk assessment of ambient air with an emphasis on the elements, exposure, and risk management
• Examines air quality management and other ambient air pollution solutions
• Discusses the environmental effects of ambient air pollutants like climate change and global warming
• Examines the epidemiology studies, estimating health and cost effects