Dissertations / Theses: 'Protection pollution air'

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Dawod, Dawid. "Breath : Development for novel breathing protection for urban China." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-110718.

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The scope for this project will be to explore, define and satisfy the current need for protection devices against air pollution. The outline for the project will be to explore the matter from an entrepreneurial perspective where the level of feasibility will be of great importance. Cost efficiency, branding and market are all important factors that should align with the product design process and outcome.

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Acharya, Ramjee. "Three Essays on the Economics of Controlling Mobile-Source Episodic Air Pollution." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7260.

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Cache County and the Wasatch Front, Utah have persistently experienced some of the nation’s worst air quality over the past decade. Elevated PM2.5 concentrations during wintertime “red air day” episodes frequently exceed the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We investigate the possible effects of two different economic policies in controlling these regional problems. Adapting a model originally developed to calculate the social investment necessary to control nationwide disease outbreaks, we estimate an optimal preventative capital stock (for example, investment in public transportation) of between $4.1 million and $14.1 million to control red air day episodes in Cache County, and $133 million to $1.6 billion dollars to control such episodes in the Wasatch Front. Further, we find that a seasonal gasoline tax rate of roughly $8 per gallon is necessary for policy makers in the Wasatch Front to impose at the pump if their goal is to maintain concentrations below the NAAQS on average during a typical winter-inversion season. This rate is roughly $2 more than the rate calculated for Cache County in a previously published study.

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Diamond, Dan (Daniel). "New York Supersite instrument intercomparison and analysis." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27448.

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Iordache, Vlad. "Etude de l'impact de la pollution atmosphérique sur l'exposition des enfants en milieu scolaire : recherche de moyens de prédiction et de protection." La Rochelle, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003LAROS095.

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Le projet développé par LEPTAB et ATMO dans le cadre d'un programme PRIMEQUAL a pour but d'analyser la relation entre les niveaux de pollution de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur des bâtiments. La première phase a consisté dans l'établissement d'une base de données expérimentales en enregistrant simultanément les concentrations en oxydes d'azote, ozone et particules, à l'extérieur et à l'intérieur de huit écoles. Les autres paramètres enregistrés sont la température et l'humidité intérieures, l'occupation des salles, les ouvertures des fenêtres et la différence de pression intérieur-extérieur. La deuxième phase concerne une analyse statistique des données mesurées afin de ressortir les paramètres influençant sur la relation entre les deux niveaux de pollution. La dernière phase présente des modèles de type logique-floue pour chaque polluant pour la prédiction de l'exposition à l'intérieur des salles de classe à partir du niveau de pollution atmosphérique et de la perméabilité du bâtiment
This research project developed by LEPTAB and AREQUA in the framework of PRIMEQUAL program targets for the relation between the indoor and local outdoor pollution. The first phase of this project consisted in the establishment of the experimental database by simultaneous recordings of the indoor and outdoor nitrogen oxides, ozone and particles matter concentrations, in eight schools in La Rochelle, France. The other recorded parameters are the indoor temperature and humidity, classroom occupation, window openings, indoor-outdoor pressure difference, wind speed and direction. The second phase presents a statistical analysis of the measured data in order to bring into view those parameters influencing the relation between the indoor and outdoor levels of pollution. The last phase provides different neuro-fuzzy models for all pollutants that can successfully be used to predict the indoor pollution level as a function of the outdoor pollution level and the building airtightness

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Li, Ying. "Using BenMAP (Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program) to Evaluate Health Benefits of Air Pollution Control." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2634.

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Bigazzi, Alexander Y. "Bicyclists' Uptake of Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Effects of the Urban Transportation System." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2064.

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While bicyclists and other active travelers obtain health benefits from increased physical activity, they also risk uptake of traffic-related air pollution. But pollution uptake by urban bicyclists is not well understood due to a lack of direct measurements and insufficient analysis of the determinants of exposure and ventilation (breathing). This knowledge gap impedes pollution-conscious transportation planning, design, and health impact assessment. The research presented in this dissertation generates new connections between transportation system characteristics and pollution uptake by bicyclists. The primary research questions are: 1) how do urban bicyclists' intake and uptake of air pollution vary with roadway and travel characteristics and 2) to what extent can transportation-related strategies reduce uptake. Breath biomarkers are used to measure absorbed doses of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This research is the first application of breath biomarkers to travelers and the first uptake measurements of any pollutant to include roadway-level covariates. Novel methods to collect and integrate bicycle, rider, traffic, and environmental data are also introduced. Bicyclist exposure concentrations, exhaled breath concentrations, respiratory physiology, and travel characteristics were collected on a wide range of facilities in Portland, Oregon. High-resolution trajectory and pollution data were then integrated with roadway and traffic data. Models of exposure, ventilation, and uptake of VOCs were estimated from the on-road data. Important new quantifications in the models include the effects of average daily traffic (ADT) on multi-pollutant exposure, the lagged effect of on-road workload on ventilation, and the effects of exposure and ventilation on absorbed VOCs. Estimated models are applied to situations of interest to travelers and transportation professionals. Sample applications include the inhalation dose effects of road grade, cruising speed choice, stops, and detouring to parallel low-traffic facilities. In addition, dose-minimizing routing behavior is compared with revealed routing preferences in the literature. Finally, findings from this research and the literature are distilled so that they can be incorporated into bicycle network design guidelines.

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Lee, Jong Min. "Engineering the Environment: Regulatory Engineering at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1970-1980." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51564.

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My dissertation addresses how engineers, scientists, and bureaucrats generated knowledge about pollution, crafted an institution for environmental protection, and constructed a collective identity for themselves. I show an important shift in regulators\' priorities, from stringent health-based standards to flexible technology-based ones through the development of end-of-pipeline pollution control devices, which contributed to the emergence of economic incentives and voluntary management programs. Drawing on findings from archival documents, published sources, and oral history interviews, I examine the first decade of the EPA amid constant organizational changes that shaped the technological and managerial character of environmental policy in the United States. Exploring the EPA\'s internal research and development processes and their relationship with scientific and engineering communities sheds light on how the new fields of environmental engineering and policy were co-produced in the 1970s. I argue that two competing approaches for environmental management, a community health approach and a control technology approach, developed from EPA\'s responses to bureaucratic, geographical, and epistemic challenges. I focus on researchers and managers from the Office of Research and Development at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, as they were engaged in (1) controversy about integrated aerometry and epidemiology research intended to correlate air pollution and health, (2) intra-agency debate about the government\'s responsibility for introducing catalytic converters for tailpipe emissions reduction and responding to the potential environmental and social consequences, and (3) inter-agency activities for the demonstration of scrubbers for smokestack emissions and further application of the control technology approach in energy-related environmental problems. My principal conceptual contribution is "regulatory engineering." I define regulatory engineering as an approach to sociotechnical problems in which engineering practices are incorporated into regulatory and organizational changes, which in turn influences technical knowledge and identity formation. As EPA activities became closely associated with energy and economic issues toward the end of the 1970s, I argue that engineers took the initiative in demonstrating and evaluating control technologies for pollution abatement and energy development, scientists carefully studied environmental and health effects of these technologies, and regulators set up pollution standards and attainment deadlines accordingly. Studying the co-production of knowledge, institution, and identity through the lens of regulatory engineering helps us to understand technoscientific and managerial aspects of environmental governance beyond the 1970s EPA where technical feasibility considerations, economic incentives, and cooperative management expanded into legislation and regulation.
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Obenson, Tanyi. "Carbon-Storing Trees and Particulate Matter Reduction in Los Angeles, California." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4749.

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Air pollution is a major concern in heavily populated cities such as Los-Angeles, California. Particulate Matter (PM) pollution in Hispanic and Black American neighborhoods in Los Angeles tends to be higher than adjacent non-minority areas. Research has indicated that certain carbon-storing trees can be used to reduce PM pollution. The purpose of this qualitative, interview research project was to determine the feasibility of using carbon-storing trees to reduce PM pollution in Hispanic and Black American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Using an ecological theoretical framework, 10 subject matter experts were interviewed about their knowledge of carbon-storing properties and the feasibility of planting 10 different types of trees to reduce PM in the target neighborhoods. The results indicated that oak and pine trees are the most feasible in accomplishing PM reduction within the target areas based on factors like leaf structure, size, and adaptation to Southern California climate and soil. The least feasible trees included California sycamore, Fremont cottonwood, ox horn bamboos, American sweetgum, and yellow poplar. Public health officials may use this study's findings to bring social change to communities by encouraging the development and implementation of tree planting plans that may reduce PM pollution for all populations across the United States. The responsibility of implementing a tree planting strategy would be up to city planners and public health officials (stakeholders) in affected communities. To accomplish this, stakeholders would need to determine the financial costs and specific locations for planting oak and pine trees.

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Turaga, Rama Mohana Rao. "Spatial Resolution, Costs, and Equity in Air Toxics Regulation." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16236.

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Concern about environmental injustice has been driving the recent effort to characterize risks from exposures to air toxics at very fine spatial resolutions. However, few studies seek to understand the potential policy implications of regulating risks at increasingly finer spatial resolutions and the impact of resulting policies on distribution of risks. To address this gap, the broad question for this research is how could the choice of spatial resolution for regulation of risks from toxic air pollutants affect emission controls and the consequences thereof? This research develops a formal model of a hypothetical decision maker choosing emission controls within a risk-based regulatory framework. The model suggests that optimal controls on air toxics emissions vary depending on the spatial resolution chosen to regulate risks; net social costs are non-decreasing as one regulates at finer and finer spatial resolutions. An empirical application of the model using air toxic emission data for Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties in Florida demonstrates the sensitivity of optimal emissions to spatial resolution chosen for regulation. The research then investigates the equity implications of regulating at different spatial resolutions with regard to the spatial distribution of cancer risks. The empirical results indicate that regulation at finer spatial resolutions could involve a tradeoff between costs and equitable distribution of risks. For example, at a threshold cancer risk of 100 in a million, regulating at census block level resolution could be twice as costly as regulating at census tract resolution while reducing the maximum individual risk by almost half. Further, regulation at finer spatial resolutions might not address environmental injustice by itself unless such concerns are more explicitly incorporated into emission control decisions. Finally, this research shows that spatial resolution at which air toxics risks are regulated could matter in predictable ways even after taking into account the uncertainties that the decision maker faces.

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Salter, Khabira. "Toxic Air Discharge and Infant Mortality: Effects of Community Size and Socioeconomics." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7073.

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Living in counties where manufacturers release environmental toxins, such as those tracked by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) toxic release inventory (TRI), may elevate infants' health risks. Because infant mortality (IM) is a strong indicator of a population's health status, it is an important topic in public health research. The purpose of this research was to examine the potential relationships between IM, community size, and factors related to mothers' SES in counties where more than 25,000 pounds of annual toxic air releases occur. The dependent variable was IM per 1,000 live births in a given community for each of the 3 years included in this analysis (1987, 1995, and 2004). The independent variables included county size and factors related to mother's SES (education, age, ethnicity, and marital status). The theoretical framework consisted of Mosley and Chen's framework for exploring child survival. Archival, publicly available data were pulled from (a) the EPAs TRI data, and (b) linked birth and infant death files from the National Center for Health Statistics. The researcher followed a quantitative, retrospective cross-sectional design and conducted 3 linear regression models to test the research questions. Results indicated that an increase in community size was significantly associated with an increase in IM. Regarding the relationships between IM and the 4 different maternal characteristics (education, age, ethnicity, and marital status) included in the analysis, findings were mixed for the 3 years examined. Despite these unexpected findings, the overall results from this investigation, when considered alongside findings from previous research on IM, indicate that policy changes and interventions are needed to reduce socioeconomic disparities in IM, and to save the lives of more infants.

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Mainolfi, Maria B. "Low Level Exposure to Air Pollution and Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Hillsborough County, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4140.

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In this retrospective cohort from 2002 through 2007, 104,003 singleton live births in Hillsborough County, Florida were analyzed to elucidate the relationship between feto-infant morbidity outcomes and prenatal exposure to six criteria air pollutants. This study is based on three linked databases: The Florida Hospital Discharge database; The vital statistics records of singleton live births; Air Pollution meteorological data from the Environmental Protection Agency. There are six common air pollutants, particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), particulate matter 10 (PM10), ground-level ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen (NOx), and lead (Pb). These pollutants are harmful to human health and the environment. The primary outcomes of interest were low birth weight (LBW), preterm births, and small for gestational age (SGA). The intent of this project is to address these issues of air pollution effects and the methodology surrounding the study of air pollution. Using modeling, exposure values of the six criteria air pollutants were assigned to mothers over their period of pregnancy. To address these methodological concerns, this study utilizes the structural equation modeling, quartile groupings with dose response, and trimester groupings to evaluate the relationship between air pollution and birth outcomes of pregnant residents. Using structural equation modeling a significant B value of 0.35 indicated that exposure to the six criteria pollutant in pregnancy may have a significant relationship to all five birth outcomes if they are broken down into latent variables. Quartile data demonstrated that NOx seemed to have most significant associations with all outcomes with a dose response for SGA. PM10 and PM2.5 had some association to LBW and VLBW at high levels. PM10 demonstrated significance in the higher doses for SGA. However, the only dose response relationship that was demonstrated for PM10 and PM2.5 was in VLBW. PM10 also demonstrated a dose response with very preterm. If sub-divided into trimester data, PM10 demonstrated a significant relationship between exposures in all trimesters and LBW, VLBW, and SGA. PM2.5 demonstrated a significant relationship between exposures in all trimesters and VLBW. CO demonstrated a significant relationship in the 2nd trimester for LBW as well as for SGA. Mothers and their babies are a vulnerable population who are more susceptible to lower levels of pollution. These air pollutants can possibly have long-term effect on their children. Implantation of laws and regulations, warning system, or more strict EPA standards may be needed to adequately control the cost to our society.

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Tsang, Sai-wing Terence, and 曾世榮. "An evaluation on the implementation of environmental protection policies in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965386.

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Madonsela, Benett Siyabonga. "Assessment of environmental exposure to air pollution within four neighbourhoods of the Western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2825.

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Thesis (MTech (Environmental Health))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019.
Background: A recent review on the effects of ambient air pollution on human health in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically calls for an urgent need for more epidemiological studies in developing countries due to a lack of data in these countries. Air pollution information on exposure is important for understanding and addressing its public health impact in developing countries. In many African countries, the spatial distribution of air pollutants has not been quantified even though air pollution is a global public health risk. The main goal of the study was to quantify and compare the seasonal spatial variation of household air pollution in the 4 Western Cape neighbourhoods. Methods: Weekly indoor and outdoor measurements of Particulate Matter (PM2.5), Sulphur dioxide (SO2), Ozone (O3), Carbon monoxide (CO) and Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were conducted at 127 households in four informal settlement areas (Khayelitsha, Marconi-Beam, Masiphumulele and Oudtshoorn) during one month each in summer and winter. PM2.5 measurements were conducted using Mesa Labs GK2.05 (KTL) cyclone with the GilAir Plus Air Sampling Pump, Gases were measured using Passam passive samplers. Statistical analyses were performed using Stata V12. Simple linear regression was used to evaluate the relationship between continuous exposure levels and the respective predictor variables. These include distance to major roads, bus routes, open grills and waste burning sites. Results: The highest average weekly outdoor PM2.5 and NO2 concentrations for summer were recorded in Milnerton (8.76 µg/m3 and 16.32 µg/m3 respectively). However, the highest average concentrations during winter for PM2.5 were recorded in Oudtshoorn (PM2.5: 16.07 µg/m3), whilst the highest NO2, was recorded in Khayelitsha (NO2: 35.69 µg/m3). SO2 levels were consistently low during both seasons. Noordhoek generally recorded the lowest average levels for all pollutants. Winter average weekly concentrations were generally higher than the levels recorded in summer for all pollutants. In a sub-sample of indoor and outdoor measurements, the results were comparable for PM2.5, NO2 and CO. However, the results of Ozone (O3) showed relatively higher (~10 times) outdoor compared to indoor levels. Linear regression modelling results revealed that significant predictors of elevated exposure to PM2.5 were proximity to construction activities and open grills. Analysis demonstrated a clear dose-response relationship with distance, with open grills within 1000m associated with a 0.33 µg/m3 increase in PM2.5 to 6.77 µg/m3 at a distance of 25 meters. Results from the linear regression modelling revealed that significant predictors of exposure to NO2 were proximity to rapid transport bus stops, bus routes, taxi routes and major routes. Distance to rapid transport bus stops demonstrated an increase in NO2 between 0.09 µg/m3 (at 1km) to 2.16 µg/m3 (at 50m) during summer. A similar pattern was observed for taxi routes and bus routes displaying an increase of 6.26 μg/m3and 6.82 μg/m3 respectively within the proximity of 1000 meters.
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Wörner, Ralf. "Oxydation du dibenzofurane : application à l'abattement des dioxines." Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997INPL063N.

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La plupart des procédés thermiques conduisent à la formation de dioxine (PCDD/F) à l'état de traces. Leur toxicité et leur faible biodégradabilité nécessitent de minimiser ces rejets par tous les moyens disponibles (modification du procédé, traitement des émissions, etc. ). Dans le cas des incinérateurs, notre étude bibliographique révèle que la zone de refroidissement des fumées joue un rôle particulièrement important sur la formation des PCDD/F. Des études approfondies effectuées sur des micropilotes ont permis d'identifier trois voies indépendantes conduisant à la formation de ces produits : une formation en phase gazeuse vers 600°C, une formation catalytique en présence de poussières de 300°C à 500°C et finalement la réaction de-novo par gazéification des poussières à 300°C. Nous en avons conclu que seule une amélioration de la combustion permettait de réduire la quantité de PCDD/F émis mais également celle d'autres produits imbrulés indésirables. Nos résultats expérimentaux sur l'oxydation du dibenzofurane en phase gazeuse et à des températures relativement élevées (> 900°C) prouvent que la teneur en oxygène ainsi que le régime d'écoulement sont les paramètres primordiaux et qu'une richesse d'environ 0,8 conduit à une combustion totale des imbrulés. Enfin, nous avons construit un mécanisme détaillé appliqué à l'oxydation du dibenzofurane qui permet d'expliquer qualitativement nos observations expérimentales et qui semble être en bon accord avec les hypothèses faites par d'autres équipes de recherche sur l'oxydation des produits aromatiques à haute température

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Ham, Cécile. "Les émissions dans l'air et dans l'eau des centrales thermiques littorales et la protection de l'environnement - Approche de droit comparé France-Chine." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UPASH003.

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Le droit applicable aux centrales thermiques implique de nombreux enjeux environnementaux. Si la pollution atmosphérique et le changement climatique sont les plus cités, la pollution de l’eau fait également partie de ceux-ci. La protection de l’environnement, que ce soit en droit français ou en droit chinois, se réalise de différentes façons en fonction de l’étape de la vie de la centrale mais aussi du milieu qui cherche à être protégé. Si les similitudes entre le droit français et le droit chinois sont nombreuses, des différences existent également.Dans le cas de la construction future de ces centrales, de manière générale, ou d’un projet précis d’une centrale, la façon de protéger l’environnement a connu d’importants changements ces dernières années. Si le niveau de protection est aujourd’hui encore largement local, il tend à devenir de plus en plus global en prenant en compte un nombre croissant d’éléments durant la phase de réflexion du projet. Dans le cas des émissions quotidiennes dans l’air et dans l’eau des centrales thermiques en fonctionnement, un certain niveau de protection de l’environnement est assuré en les limitant. La limitation passe principalement par la fixation de seuils qui forment le socle fondamental de cette protection quotidienne et sont complétés par d’autres outils juridiques. Enfin, cette protection de l’environnement passe par la vigilance par le biais du système de la surveillance des émissions mais aussi par l’anticipation liée à l’éventuel dysfonctionnement de la centrale et la période post-fonctionnement de celle-ci
Applicable law to thermal power plants involves many environmental issues. If air pollution and climate change are the most well-known issues, water pollution is also one of them. Environmental protection, whether in French or Chinese law, is achieved in different ways depending on the stage of the plant’s life but also on the environment that seeks to be protected. If they are many similarities between French law and Chinese law, many differences also exist.In the case of the future construction of these plants in general, or of a specific plant project, the way of protecting the environment has undergone significant changes in recent years. If the level of protection is still largely local nowadays, it tends to become more and more global by taking increasing amount of elements when the power plant project is carried out. In the case of daily air and water emissions from thermal power plants in operation, some environmental protection is ensured by limiting them. The limitation mainly involves the setting of emission limits which try to be gradually lowered. These form the fundamental foundation of this daily protection and are complemented by other legal tools. Finally, this protection of the environment requires vigilance through the emissions monitoring system but also through anticipation linked to the possible malfunction of the power plant and the post-operation period of it

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Gasiūnas, Vytautas. "Kerpių bioindikacinių savybių panaudojimas oro taršai Kuršėnų mieste įvertinti." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130820_093721-01161.

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Bakalauro darbo tikslas - pagal kerpių rūšių gausumą ir kerpėmis dengiamą plotą ant medžių kamienų tam tikrame objekte nustatyti oro užterštumą. Darbo objektas – kerpės, augančios Kuršėnų mieste ant medžių katilinės poveikio zonoje. Darbas atlikas 2012 metų liepos - rugpjūčio mėnesiais. Kuršėnų mieste vyraujantys vėjai yra pietvakarių. Nuo katilinės vyraujančių vėjų kryptimi (PV) pažymėtame transekte 1 km intervalais išdėstyti 5 tyrimo bareliai (30x30 m pločio). Tokia pat tvarka nuo darbo objekto išdėstyti 5 tyrimo bareliai priešinga kryptimi (prieš vyraujančių vėjų kryptį (ŠR)). Kiekviename barelyje nuo kiekvienos medžių rūšies buvo paimti kerpių mėginiai, nustatytas jų kamieno procentinis padengimas. Darbe nustatytos visos kerpių rūšys, augančios ant medžių kamienų. Tirtoje teritorijoje identifikuota 15 kerpių rūšių: 7 lapiškosios ir 8 žiauberiškosios. Daugiausiai kerpių rūšių aptikta trijuose bareliuose kurie yra nutolę 4 ir 5 kilometrais nuo taršos objekto prieš vyraujančių vėjų kryptį (ŠR) ir 5 kilometrais pagal vyraujančių vėjų kryptį (PV) šiuose bareliuose buvo rasta po 6 kerpių rūšis.
The aim of this final paper of the Bachelor degree is measuring air pollution according to the abundance of species of lichens as well as the area covered by lichens on the trunks of the trees. The object of this work is lichens who grow on trees in Kuršėnai city. Pollution source is boiler-house of “Siauliai Energy”. Experiment was carried out in July - August months 2012. Kuršėnai is dominated by southwestern (SW) winds. In the selected transect stretching from the boiler-house in the direction of prevailing winds, southwest (SW), the study plots (30x30 m) were located at 1 km intervals from each other. According to the same ordering, study plots in the opposite direction were set out (against the prevailing wind direction (NE)). This paper identifies all kinds of lichen that grow on tree trunks in the area. Fifteen species of lichens were identified in the investigated area. More specifically, 7 foliose and 8 crustose were found. Most species of lichen grow in the outskirts of the city, while the least amount of them was found close to the source of pollution.

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Mahdiansadr, Motaharehsadat. "Legal Protection of the Atmosphere in International Law: Achievements and Lacunas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671987.

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L’atmosfera es considera un element vital per a la supervivència de la humanitat i de tota la vida a la Terra. Per tant, la degradació atmosfèrica ha de ser una qüestió de gran preocupació per a tota la comunitat internacional. Com a recurs natural més gran de la Terra, l’atmosfera encara no està sotmesa a un règim jurídic integral. Aquesta tesi doctoral pretén proporcionar una visió general de l’estat de l’atmosfera i de les amenaces que condueixen a la seva degradació associada als humans; a aclarir l'estatus legal de l'atmosfera d'acord amb les mesures legals per a la protecció atmosfèrica; estudiar el desenvolupament gradual dels marcs i instruments legals de protecció atmosfèrica segons el dret internacional, com ara el treball de la comissió de dret internacional sobre la protecció de l'atmosfera i els tractats sobre la lluita contra la contaminació de l'aire i el canvi climàtic; a proposar una nova visió de la protecció de l’atmosfera com a interès comú en lloc de l’enfocament tradicional de reciprocitat
La atmósfera se considera un elemento vital para la supervivencia de la humanidad y toda la vida en la Tierra. Por lo tanto, la degradación atmosférica debe ser motivo de grave preocupación para toda la comunidad internacional. Como el recurso natural individual más grande de la Tierra, la atmósfera aún no está sujeta a un régimen legal integral. Esta tesis tiene como objetivo proporcionar una visión general de la condición de la atmósfera y las amenazas que conducen a su degradación asociadas con los humanos; esclarecer el estatus legal de la atmósfera de acuerdo a las medidas legales para la protección atmosférica; estudiar el desarrollo gradual de los marcos e instrumentos jurídicos de protección atmosférica de derecho internacional, como el trabajo de la comisión de derecho internacional sobre la protección de la atmósfera y los tratados de lucha contra la contaminación atmosférica y el cambio climático; a proponer una nueva visión de la protección de la atmósfera como un interés común en lugar del enfoque tradicional de reciprocidad.
The atmosphere is considered a vital element to the survival of humankind and all life on Earth. Therefore, atmospheric degradation has to be a matter of grave concern to all international community. As the Earth’s largest single natural resource, the atmosphere is not subject to a comprehensive legal regime yet. This doctoral thesis aims to provide an overview of the condition of the atmosphere and the threats leading to its degradation associated with humans; to clarifying the legal status of the atmosphere according to legal measures for the atmospheric protection; to study the gradual development of the atmospheric protection legal frameworks and instruments under international law, such as work of the international law commission on the protection of the atmosphere, and treaties on combating air pollution and climate change; to proposing a new view of the protection of the atmosphere as a common interest rather than the traditional reciprocity approach.

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Yu, Haofei. "A Modeling Investigation of Human Exposure to Select Traffic-Related Air Pollutants in the Tampa Area: Spatiotemporal Distributions of Concentrations, Social Distributions of Exposures, and Impacts of Urban Design on Both." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4795.

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Increasing vehicle dependence in the United States has resulted in substantial emissions of traffic-related air pollutants that contribute to the deterioration of urban air quality. Exposure to urban air pollutants trigger a number of public health concerns, including the potential of inequality of exposures and health effects among population subgroups. To better understand the impact of traffic-related pollutants on air quality, exposure, and exposure inequality, modeling methods that can appropriately characterize the spatiotemporally resolved concentration distributions of traffic-related pollutants need to be improved. These modeling methods can then be used to investigate the impacts of urban design and transportation management choices on air quality, pollution exposures, and related inequality. This work will address these needs with three objectives: 1) to improve modeling methods for investigating interactions between city and transportation design choices and air pollution exposures, 2) to characterize current exposures and the social distribution of exposures to traffic-related air pollutants for the case study area of Hillsborough County, Florida, and 3) to determine expected impacts of urban design and transportation management choices on air quality, air pollution exposures, and exposure inequality. To achieve these objectives, the impacts of a small-scale transportation management project, specifically the '95 Express' high occupancy toll lane project, on pollutant emissions and nearby air quality was investigated. Next, a modeling method capable of characterizing spatiotemporally resolved pollutant emissions, concentrations, and exposures was developed and applied to estimate the impact of traffic-related pollutants on exposure and exposure inequalities among several population subgroups in Hillsborough County, Florida. Finally, using these results as baseline, the impacts of sprawl and compact urban forms, as well as vehicle fleet electrification, on air quality, pollution exposure, and exposure inequality were explored. Major findings include slightly higher pollutant emissions, with the exception of hydrocarbons, due to the managed lane project. Results also show that ambient concentration contributions from on-road mobile sources are disproportionate to their emissions. Additionally, processes not captured by the CALPUFF model, such as atmospheric formation, contribute substantially to ambient concentration levels of the secondary pollutants such as acetaldehyde and formaldehyde. Exposure inequalities for NOx, 1,3-butadiene, and benzene air pollution were found for black, Hispanic, and low income (annual household income less than $20,000) subgroups at both short-term and long-term temporal scales, which is consistent with previous findings. Exposure disparities among the subgroups are complex, and sometimes reversed for acetaldehyde and formaldehyde, due primarily to their distinct concentration distributions. Compact urban form was found to result in lower average NOx and benzene concentrations, but higher exposure for all pollutants except for NOx when compared to sprawl urban form. Evidence suggests that exposure inequalities differ between sprawl and compact urban forms, and also differ by pollutants, but are generally consistent at both short and long-term temporal scales. In addition, vehicle fleet electrification was found to result in generally lower average pollutant concentrations and exposures, except for NOx. However, the elimination of on-road mobile source emissions does not substantially reduce exposure inequality. Results and findings from this work can be applied to assist transportation infrastructure and urban planning. In addition, method developed here can be applied elsewhere for better characterization of air pollution concentrations, exposure and related inequalities.

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Avenas, Arthur. "Qualitative analysis of a regional public policy for air quality : A case study of Normandie, France." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-292693.

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Today, outdoor air quality occupies an important place into civic dialogue because of the many impacts of atmospheric pollution on health. Different legislations and strategies have thus been implemented across the world to improve outdoor air quality. Analysing and comparing the different strategies can help adopting the best practices in favour of air quality. In France, in particular, the national air quality policy is reflected at a regional scale through legislative documents called Atmosphere Protection Plans (PPAs). The analysis of such a document thus represents a powerful way to assess a regional air quality policy. Here, Normandie’s PPA has been analysed through a literature review, working meetings as well as qualitative interviews. The study highlighted that Normandie’s air quality policy had to answer a complex legislative ecosystem of international, national and local documents. The analysis also underlined that the questions of the perimeter of action of the policy and the targeted pollutants were as central as the measures implemented to improve air quality. The working meetings and the qualitative interviews led to consensus that Normandie’s air quality policy should target 3 atmospheric pollutants: nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter 10 and particulate matter 2.5. If road traffic has been identified as the major emitting source of the first, particulate matter emitting sources were pointed as varied and multi-sectoral. Finally, some measures of Normandie’s air quality policy appeared to be particularly efficient and advanced, such as agricultural measures. Yet, many difficulties were encountered when implementing several measures of the policy. The main difficulties were the lack of financial resources, the lack of project leader and the lack of technical expertise. More than a basic analysis of an air quality public policy, these results can also be perceived as a sharing of experience on how a region addresses air quality issues. Because a work of collection of best practices and best strategies to improve air quality is more than ever needed, further research can build on this study to elaborate a relevant air quality policy.
Luftkvaliteten visar den antropogena nedbrytningen av det naturliga tillståndet för luft. Detta ämne har spelat en allt viktigare roll i den offentliga debatten under de senaste decennierna, på grund av de olika effekterna som luftföroreningar har på hälsan. I denna masteruppsats har Normandies politik för luftkvalitet analyserats. I Frankrike regleras nationell luftkvalitetspolitik i regional skala genom lagstiftningsdokument som kallas Atmosphere Protection Plan (PPA). Analysen av detta dokument gör det möjligt att bedöma den regionala luftkvalitetspolitiken. Således har hela studien baserats på analysen av Normandies PPA. Här har Normandies PPA analyserats genom litteraturöversikt, arbetsmöten och kvalitativa intervjuer. Först och främst belyste litteraturöversikten att Normandies PPA måste ta hänsyn till ett komplext lagstiftningsekosystem, allt från internationell till lokal skala. I synnerhet är Normandies PPA-huvudmål att uppnå de tröskelvärden som definieras av de europeiska direktiven. I ett andra steg tillät en granskning av PPA från sex franska regioner att jämföra Normandies luftkvalitetspolitik med andra regioners politik. Under denna fas har såväl strukturer dokumenterats som de presenterade åtgärderna utvärderats med avseende på strukturerna och åtgärderna för de andra PPA. I synnerhet har återkommande kategorier och underavsnitt identifierats i de sex PPA. Dessutom tycktes motiveringen av applikationomkrets vara central, liksom de riktade atmosfäriska föroreningarna. På samma sätt tillät jämförelsen av åtgärderna för de sex PPA att identifiera de relevanta och banbrytande åtgärderna i Normandies PPA, som tillhör hamnsektorn och de sektorsövergripande åtgärderna. Omvänt verkade åtgärderna av Normandies PPA vara otillfredsställande inom industri- och transportsektorn. En mer fördjupad analys genomfördes genom arbetsmöten och kvalitativa intervjuer. Flera frågor har bedömts, till exempel applikationomkrets och PPAs struktur. I synnerhet har man dragit slutsatsen att minskningen av applikationomkretsen som Normandie avsåg var relevant och förhindrade PPAs komplikationer. Dessutom påpekade deltagarna att om Normandies PPA-struktur var ganska tydlig, saknades fortfarande viktiga underavsnitt i Normandies PPA och de bör läggas till. Arbetsmötena liksom de kvalitativa intervjuerna gjorde det också möjligt att ta upp frågan om de riktade föroreningarna och deras källor. Alla deltagare och intervjuade gick med på att rikta in NO2, PM10 och PM2.5 i Normandies PPA. Integrationen av SO2 och O3 har dock diskuterats mer, den första har endast släppts ut i skadlig mängd under industriella olyckor, och den andra var för svår att hantera eftersom den är en sekundär förorening. När det gäller utsläppskällorna visade studien att en hög atmosfärisk koncentration av NO2 främst berodde på vägtrafik. Utsläppskällorna PM10 och PM2.5 identifierades som mer varierade och flersektoriella. Slutligen tillät de kvalitativa intervjuerna att avgöra vilka åtgärder av Normandies PPA som har slutförts eller inte, och att identifiera varför. Åtgärder inom jordbrukssektorn nämndes som de mest avancerade åtgärderna i Normandies PPA. Omvänt har två åtgärder övergivits helt, en inom hamnsektorn, den andra inom transportsektorn. Några skäl som förklarade varför alla åtgärder inte har genomförts var bristen på ekonomiska resurser, bristen på projektledare och bristen på teknisk expertis. Mer allmänt verkar det vara avgörande att involvera de olika intressenterna från varje utsläppssektor och sätta dem runt ett bord för att skapa effektiva åtgärder till förmån för luftkvaliteten.

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Li, Ying, Daven K. Henze, Darby Jack, Barron H. Henderson, and Patrick L. Kinney. "Assessing Public Health Burden Associated with Exposure to Ambient Black Carbon in the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7.

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Black carbon (BC) is a significant component of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution, which has been linked to a series of adverse health effects, in particular premature mortality. Recent scientific research indicates that BC also plays an important role in climate change. Therefore, controlling black carbon emissions provides an opportunity for a double dividend. This study quantifies the national burden of mortality and morbidity attributable to exposure to ambient BC in the United States (US). We use GEOS–Chem, a global 3-D model of atmospheric composition to estimate the 2010 annual average BC levels at 0.5 x 0.667° resolution, and then re-grid to 12-km grid resolution across the continental US. Using PM2.5 mortality risk coefficient drawn from the American Cancer Society cohort study, the numbers of deaths due to BC exposure were estimated for each 12-km grid, and then aggregated to the county, state and national level. Given evidence that BC particles may pose a greater risk on human health than other components of PM2.5, we also conducted sensitivity analysis using BC-specific risk coefficients drawn from recent literature. We estimated approximately 14,000 deaths to result from the 2010 BC levels, and hundreds of thousands of illness cases, ranging from hospitalizations and emergency department visits to minor respiratory symptoms. Sensitivity analysis indicates that the total BC-related mortality could be even significantly larger than the above mortality estimate. Our findings indicate that controlling BC emissions would have substantial benefits for public health in the US.

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Fridh, Samantha Catherine. "A Pilot Study of Small-Scale Variations in Outdoor Benzene Concentrations." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3108.

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Benzene is an important toxic chemical in urban air and known human carcinogen released substantially by mobile sources. It's important to understand the spatial variation of benzene concentrations in order to understand exposures of susceptible sub-populations such as children and minority groups. Current monitoring networks use large and expensive air samplers that require electricity and restrict the location and number of samplers, not allowing for fine spatial resolution data. The goals of this study are to develop and evaluate protocols for passive sampling and analysis of ambient benzene concentrations, and conduct a pilot study investigating small-scale variations over an area where children are likely to be exposed. Protocols were developed for the use and analysis of the Radiello RAD130 passive sampler for field sampling over the spatial scale of a city park adjacent to an elementary school. A pilot study was conducted from 4/27/11-5/4/11, where 11 samplers were exposed for a seven day sampling period at the park. After sampler exposure, benzene concentrations were determined through solvent desorption followed by analysis using a Varian gas chromatograph with mass spectrometer. Co-location with the existing regulatory active sampler in the county and of two samplers at the same site was done to evaluate the accuracy and precision of the methods, respectively. Health risk estimates were calculated using risk assessment guidance from the U.S. and California Environmental Protection Agencies. Concentrations over the park were found to range from 0.23 0.34 µg m^-3 with a coefficient of variation of 11%. A relative percent difference of 3% was found between the co-located sampler and the active sampler, and a 14% relative percent difference was found between the two duplicate samplers. The variation in health risk from concentration variation due to sampler placement contributed less to the overall uncertainty in the estimates than the uncertainty built in to the calculation parameters of inhalation unit risk and cancer potency factor, as estimated by the U.S. EPA and California EPA, respectively. These results suggest that the exposure of an individual at the park would be characterized sufficiently for standard health risk analysis through the use of one sampler. Further research is necessary into using passive samplers over both the same spatial scale in other areas, as well as on a larger scale to determine intra-urban benzene concentration distributions. The protocols developed here will be used in a future planned study of benzene concentration measurements to characterize neighborhood-scale exposures in Hillsborough County.

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Čėglytė, Aurelija. "Atmosferos apsaugos struktūros valdymo tobulinimas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070104_115109-14230.

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Nowadays much attention is paid to air pollution in the world. Effective and suitable management of atmosphere protection is very important, because climate change, human health and survival of biodiversity depends on it. For these reasons atmosphere protection management should get our special interest. The aim of this work is to analyse the structure of atmosphere protection in Lithuania and to provide proposals on how to improve it. This work also suggests how to improve the policy of atmosphere protection and ensure appropriate air quality in Lithuania. This master‘s work consists of four parts, which are designated to analyse the structure of atmosphere protection management and cooperation between institutions, to make systematic analysis of atmosphere protection laws and examine possible inaccuracies, to find inaccuracies in institutional, legal and financial systems, which are related to the management of atmosphere protection and to sugest some improvements on how to improve the structure of atmosphere protection management and the policy of atmosphere protection. Implementing the tasks of this master‘s work, the importance of atmosphere air management was taken into consideration in the context of sustainable development, Lithuanian and European Union laws and Lithuanian institutional structure of atmosphere protection management were analysed and suggestions related to the improvement of atmosphere protection management structure improvement were given. The... [to full text]

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Papier, Mark Elliot. "Real-time measurement of on-road fine particulate matter in Atlanta." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22544.

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Particulate matter is increasingly linked to health effects not only for what was previously thought to be just a respiratory problem, but also for the cardiovascular system. Literature not only supports that high particulate matter over long periods of time is correlated to morbidity and mortality due to both cardiovascular and respiratory means, but that high levels of particulate matter, even in short bursts of high concentrations, may be the triggering mechanism for the onset of such problems. Due to automobiles being a prime source of particulate matter, roadway concentrations are often higher than those measured at off-road measurement sites run by various parts of the United States Government. Furthermore, the government run sites are averaged over timescales at a minimum of an hour and at a maximum of a running three-day twenty-four hour length. These are both so long that mesoscale information about the particulate matter, such as short duration high intensity bursts, would be completely removed from the dataset. This study utilizes a real-time portable instrumentation package, which can effectively measure particulate matter concentrations on the roadways of metro Atlanta. Measurements are taken both inside the cabin of a vehicle, which does have an in-cabin filtration system, and on a bicycle ridden along the streets without any form of filtration. These instruments, specifically calibrated handheld particle counters, did indeed find some spikes of particulates above the government s one-hour averages inside the cabin of a vehicle. Arguably more importantly, while riding a bicycle these handheld particle counters also found spikes of particulates approaching six times the amount monitored by the government sites, and several roadway averages that were higher than the off-road averages for the same time.

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Drabo, Alassane. "Health, environment and economic development." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CLF10376/document.

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Cette thèse étudie théoriquement et empiriquement les interrelations entre la santé de la population, la dégradation de l'environnement et le développement économique, ses conséquences pour les pays en développement, et fournit certaines réponses en termes de politique économique. Elle est subdivisée en deux parties. La première partie s’intéresse à la relation entre l’environnement, la santé, et les inégalités. Elle analyse dans un premier temps l’hypothèse selon laquelle la dégradation de l'environnement pourrait être considérée comme un canal supplémentaire par lequel les inégalités de revenu affectent les taux de mortalité infantile et juvénile (chapitre 2). Nos travaux théoriques et empiriques montrent que les inégalités de revenu affectent négativement la qualité de l'air et de l'eau, et cela à son tour dégrade la santé de la population. Par conséquent, la dégradation de l'environnement peut être considérée comme un canal non négligeable à travers lequel les inégalités de revenu influence l’état de santé. Il est ensuite démontré que les émissions de dioxyde de soufre (SO2) et celles des micro-Particules (PM10) sont en partie responsables des grandes disparités dans la mortalité infantile et juvénile au sein des pays pauvres (chapitre 3) .En outre, nos résultats soutiennent l’idée selon laquelle les institutions démocratiques jouent un rôle de protection sociale en atténuant cet effet pour les classes de revenu les plus pauvres et ainsi réduisent les inégalités de santé provoquées par la pollution. La deuxième partie évalue le lien entre la santé, l'environnement et la croissance économique. Le Chapitre 4 évalue l'effet de la santé (charge globale de la maladie, maladies transmissibles et paludisme) sur la croissance économique. Ce chapitre montre que les indicateurs de santé, lorsqu'ils sont correctement mesurés par l'écart entre l'état de santé actuel et une situation de santé idéal où toute la population vit à un âge avancé, indemne de maladie et d'invalidité, et lorsqu’ils sont convenablement instrumentés, ont un impact négatif significatif sur la performance économique. Les conséquences de ces interactions sur la convergence économique des pays pauvres vers leur état régulier, sont théoriquement et empiriquement analysées dans le dernier chapitre. Il en ressort que la dégradation de l'environnement réduit la capacité des pays pauvres d'atteindre leur état régulier, renforçant ainsi notre argument théorique selon lequel l’amélioration de la qualité de l'environnement joue un rôle considérable dans le processus de convergence économique. En outre, la dégradation de la qualité de l'air et de l'eau affecte négativement la performance économique, et l'état de santé demeure un canal important par lequel la dégradation de l'environnement agit sur la croissance économique même si elle n'est pas le seul. L’hypothèse de la courbe environnementale de Kuznets (EKC) est également vérifiée
This dissertation investigates theoretically and empirically the interrelationships among population’s health,environmental degradation and economic development, its consequences for developing countries, and someeffective policy responses. The first part explores the association between health, environment, and inequalities. Itfirstly analyzes whether environmental degradation could be considered as an additional channel through whichincome inequality affects infant and child mortality (chapter 2). Theoretical and empirical investigations show thatincome inequality affects negatively air and water quality, and this in turn worsens population’s health. Therefore,environmental degradation is an important channel through which income inequality affects population health. Then,it is shown that sulphur dioxide emission (SO2) and particulate matter (PM10) are in part responsible for the largedisparities in infant and child mortalities between and within developing countries (chapter 3). In addition, we foundthat democratic institutions play the role of social protection by mitigating this effect for the poorest income classesand reducing the health inequality it provokes. The second part is devoted to the link among health, environment,and economic growth. The effect of health (global burden of disease, communicable disease, and malaria) oneconomic growth is assessed in Chapter 4. This chapter shows that health indicators, when correctly measured by thegap between current health status and an ideal health situation where the entire population lives to an advanced age,free of disease and disability, and when accurately instrumented have significant impact on economic performance.The consequences of these interrelationships on the convergence of poor countries towards their steady state aretheoretically and empirically investigated in the last Chapter (chapter 5). It is found that environment degradationreduces the ability of poor countries to reach their own steady state, reinforcing our argument according to whichenvironment quality improvement plays a considerable role in economic convergence process. Moreover, thedegradation of air and water quality affects negatively economic performance, and health status remains an importantchannel through which environment degradation affects economic growth even if it is not alone. The EnvironmentalKuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is also verified

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Vann, Barry. "Factors Affecting Wood Fuel Consumption and Environmental Impacts in Warren County, Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1835.

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The purpose of this research is to identify factors that contribute to wood fuel consumption as a space heating source and estimate a county-wide proportion for wood fuel consuming households. In addition, environmental problems associated with deforestation such as erosion and loss of wildlife habitat are delineated; moreover, air pollution resulting from wood fuel emissions are discussed. An exhaustive literature review provided the basis for the study. Data on Warren County wood fuel consumption patterns were derived from a mail survey. Proportion estimates were tested by using a classical two-tail test of hypothesis. Subsequently, factors were identified and used in a multiple regression analysis. The study found that low income households equipped with electric space heating systems located in rural areas are the most wood intensive. Unlike homes equipped with other alternate heating systems, electric space heat equipped households tend to consume wood fuel proportionally to income. The study also found that 26.3 percent of single family residences in the county use wood for space heating.

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Langrish, Jeremy Patrick. "Acute cardiovascular effects of exposure to air pollution : components, vascular mechanisms and protecting the public." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8144.

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Exposure to air pollution, particularly fine and ultrafine particulate matter derived from combustion sources, has been consistently associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Recent controlled exposure studies demonstrate that short-term exposure to diesel exhaust, which can contribute up to 40% of urban particulate air pollution, results in impaired vascular endothelial and fibrinolytic function in healthy volunteers, and increased exercise-induced myocardial ischaemia in patients with coronary heart disease. These observations may, in part, explain the observed increase in cardiovascular events following exposure to air pollution. Despite these observations there remain uncertainties regarding the key constituents of the air pollution mixture that mediate these adverse effects, and the underlying physiological and biological pathways involved. In these studies, using two controlled exposure facilities, I explored the vascular effects of the most prevalent gaseous component of the air pollution mixture – nitrogen dioxide – and the mechanisms responsible for impaired vasomotor function following exposure to diesel exhaust. Furthermore, I investigated the effect of acute exposure to “real-world” urban air pollution in both healthy volunteers and patients with coronary heart disease, and the effect of reducing that exposure using a simple facemask. In total, 10 healthy volunteers were exposed to nitrogen dioxide, and 29 healthy volunteers exposed to dilute diesel exhaust in a series of doubleblind randomised crossover studies. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide had no effect on either vasomotor function or endogenous fibrinolysis, providing indirect evidence that the adverse vascular effects are predominantly driven by particulate components. Following exposure to diesel exhaust there was no up regulation of endothelin-1 production, although there was increased vasoconstriction to intra-arterial infusion of endothelin-1. Following endothelin A receptor antagonism, there was attenuated vasodilatation following exposure to diesel exhaust as compared to air, an effect abrogated by endothelin B receptor antagonism. My findings suggest that the endothelin system does not play a central role in the adverse vascular effects of air pollution, but given the tonic interaction between the endothelin and nitric oxide systems, these observations could be explained by reduced nitric oxide bioavailability. Following diesel exhaust inhalation, plasma nitrite concentrations (as a marker for nitric oxide generation) are markedly increased without changes in haemodynamics or basal blood flow consistent with increased nitric oxide consumption. In the presence of a nitric oxide clamp, and without endogenous nitric oxide release, the vascular responses to vasodilators are similar. This perturbation of nitric oxide consumption and release appears to underlie the observed vascular endothelial effects. Fifteen healthy volunteers and 98 patients with coronary artery disease were recruited in Beijing, China. Subjects walked along a predefined city centre route for 2 hours in the presence and absence of a highly efficient facemask to reduce personal particulate air pollution exposure in an open label randomised crossover study. When wearing a facemask, there was an attenuation of exercise-induced increases in blood pressure, an improvement in heart rate variability, reduced myocardial ischaemia and subjects reported fewer symptoms. My findings have identified the biological mechanisms underlying the adverse vascular effects of exposure to diesel exhaust, and have helped to clarify the components responsible for these effects. Moreover, I have identified important benefits of reducing personal exposure to particulate matter using a simple facemask that have the potential to reduce cardiovascular events in patients living in urban or industrialised areas. Ongoing research in this area will provide further insight into the underlying vascular mechanisms, and the potential benefits of reducing particulate air pollution exposure, and may result in important targeted interventions to reduce the impact of air pollution on cardiovascular health.

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Johansson, AnnaKarin. "Passive Smoking in Children : The Importance of Parents’ Smoking and Use of Protective Measures." Doctoral thesis, Linköping, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5174.

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Gauthier-Manuel, Annie. "L'acidité des pluies et les photooxydants atmosphériques : études récentes en Franche-Comté et la relation avec le dépérissement forestier." Besançon, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989BESA2017.

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(. . . ) l'etude quantitative de l'acidite et des principaux constituants des pluies permet de montrer que la pollution n'a pas evolue de facon importante au cours des annees 1970-1980. En troisieme partie les resultats des mesures sur les pluies effectuees pres de besancon de 1967 a 1986 sont repris et montrent une faible variation de l'acidite (. . . )

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Caers, Brecht. "Conditions for Passenger Aircraft Minimum Fuel Consumption, Direct Operating Costs and Environmental Impact." Master's thesis, Aircraft Design and Systems Group (AERO), Department of Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1204494622.

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Purpose - Find optimal flight and design parameters for three objectives: minimum fuel consumption, Direct Operating Costs (DOC), and environmental impact of a passenger jet aircraft. --- Approach - Combining multiple models (this includes aerodynamics, specific fuel consumption, DOC, and equivalent CO2 mass) into one generic model. In this combined model, each objective's importance is determined by a weighting factor. Additionally, the possibility of further optimizing this model by altering an aircraft's wing loading is analyzed. --- Research limitations - Most models use estimating equations based on first principles and statistical data. --- Practical implications - The optimal cruise altitude and speed for a specific objective can be approximated for any passenger jet aircraft. --- Social implications - By using a simple approach, the discussion of optimizing aircraft opens up to a level where everyone can participate. --- Value - To find a general answer on how to optimize aviation, operational and design-wise, by using a simple approach.

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Chéret, Véronique. "La sapiniere du luchonnais (pyrenees hautes-garonnaises) : etude phytoecologique, recherches sur le phenomene de deperissement forestier." Toulouse 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987TOU30042.

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Un phenomene de deperissement du sapin (abies alba m. ) se developpe depuis plusieurs annees dans le luchonnais. Apres un inventaire des symptomes et une cartographie des secteurs forestiers atteints, des travaux ont ete menes dans differents domaines afin d'expliciter ce phenomene. Il ressort que le deperissement semble du a une synergie de facteurs contribuant a affaiblir progressivement la sapiniere en provoquant directement (pollutions acides, faible fertilite des sols) ou indirectement (secheresse, competition) des troubles nutritionnels

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Naicker, Mogasundram Shunmugam. "An industrial chemocide : synoptic analysis of air pollution in the Durban South area." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9524.

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Air pollution, health and poverty convey overtones of moral dereliction of our people by the confederacy of perpetrators. It is true that a cocktail of chemical emissions pollute the Durban South area and the residents paying an enormous price to survive. With poverty abound, the people feel disenfranchised as their plea for a better environment fails to improve their standing. This short treatise looks at the role of people and the business as one part and the inclusion of the government on the other part. A comparison of covert techniques and manipulations used by business to circumvent the system. Legislation although adequate but lacking enforcement together with legal remedies as a way to stop this incursion to our Constitutional right. A paradigm shift to sustainability in exploring the many facets of invaluable 'practical solutions' to save and sustain our existence and our intergenerational society. The government authorities saddled with internal strife and the under-funded NGOs who are buoyed by media support still prove ineffective. The conglomerates with all their abundant resources covertly or otherwise propagate their maliciousness unchecked. The enforcement authorities, the judicial officers, the NGOs and the people must work harmously to stem this unacceptable moral degradation before it reaches abysmal proportions.
Thesis (LL.M.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.

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Datta, Biplab. "Essays on Public Spending in Education, Social Protection, and Infrastructure." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/econ_diss/133.

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In this dissertation, I visit areas of government spending that are core to human development and economic growth, and have equity and efficiency considerations. In the first essay, I examine the relationship between education and air pollution. How pollution affects education is typically studied through the health aspects of pollution exposure, and its subsequent effects on academic performance. This essay proposes a financing channel of pollution’s impact on education outcome. School districts with better air quality are endowed with higher tax base, and can generate more resources. Panel fixed effect analysis for a group of metropolitan school districts in the USA suggests that decrease in air pollution increases property tax revenue per pupil in the district. The second essay investigates the incidence of broad-based energy subsidies, and whether poor households could gain from targeted transfer programs financed by savings from reform. I analyze the tariff differential subsidy program in Pakistan, and find that the subsidy is regressive. I conduct a CGE exercise and find that reducing energy subsidy and redistributing savings to poor households, would improve poor household’s welfare. The third essay studies how public infrastructure capital affects growth in developing countries. The relationship between infrastructure and economic growth is widely studied in developed country context. This study contributes to literature by estimating output elasticities with respect to public infrastructure capital stock for two developing countries – Mauritius and Bangladesh. Estimated output elasticities are mostly positive for both countries, which suggests that public infrastructure stimulates economic growth in developing countries.

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Jelínek, Jan. "Právní úprava ochrany kvality ovzduší." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-396727.

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Legal Regulation of Air Quality Protection Abstract This diploma thesis provides an overview of the legislation on air quality in the Czech Republic with a focus on the regulation in the Act No. 201/2012 Coll., on air protection including a detailed analysis of some problematic aspects and current issues. Air pollution is the actual global issue that is discussed not only in the Czech Republic but also all over the world, mainly because of the harmful effects on human health and the environment. This paper is organized as follows. The introductory chapter defines the necessary terms, which are essential to the following text of the paper. This chapter also describes the distribution of air pollutant sources and the importance of this distribution for subsequent obligations. The next chapter provides an overview of the historical development of Czech, international and European air quality legislation following by chapters, where the individual types of regulatory instruments to reduce air pollution are analyzed. The chapter on conceptual instruments mainly focuses on the National Emission Reduction Programme of the Czech Republic and an Air Quality Improvement Programs, including an analysis of the changes brought by the amendment to the Air Protection Act implemented by Act No. 172/2018 Coll. Moreover...

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Nepfumbada, Mbulungeni. "The promotion and protection of public health in South Africa through environmental legislation with specific reference to air pollution." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5354.

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The Constitution of South Africa I, (the Constitution) envisages in the Bill of Rights that: Everyone has the right -(a) to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being; and (b) to have the environment protected. for the benefit of present and future generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that prevent pollution and ecological degradation; II. promote conservation; and III. secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promolingjuslifiable economic and social development.3 There are other statutes that support the Constitution. for example, the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA).4 This Act states in its preamble that : " Whereas many inhabitants of South Africa live in an environment that is not harmful to their health and well being everyone has the right to an environment that is not harmful to his or her health or well being; and everyone has the right to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and futu re generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that prevent pollution and ecological degradation ... Both the Constitution and NEMA are not only concerned with the environment but also with the health and well·being of South Africans. The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health, as ' more than the absence of disease and infirmity, it is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.' Environmental health in broad term is concerned with factors in the environment associated with health, well-being and disease, including physical, chemical and biological conditions.
Thesis (LL.M)-University of Durban-Westville, 2001.

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Chen, Yichun. "Designing bicycle infrastructure in Nanjing, China." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30861.

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China faces a very serious environmental situation as a result of severe environmental pollution in the country. Smog in eastern and northern China is a wake-up call for actions to be taken to improve the ecological environment. As a student in landscape architecture, my practicum topic focuses on a design that can reduce the problem of air pollution in China. A bicycle infrastructure design in Nanjing is proposed to encourage people to ride instead of drive. By creating a safe, functional, efficient, recreational and attractive bicycle system, more people will love cycling and realize the importance of “green travel”. At the same time, I would like to try to improve Chinese people’s awareness of environmental protection through a well-designed bicycle infrastructure.
February 2016

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Glozyga, Dušan. "Právní úprava ochrany kvality ovzduší." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-389184.

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This thesis deals with the issues associated with the legal regulation of air quality protection. The main objective is to describe, analyse and evaluate the condition of the current legal regulation which is mainly represented by the Act no. 201/2012 Coll., on the protection of air. The introductory part of the thesis focuses on the historical development of the legal regulation, its primary milestones, as well as legal regulation according to International and European Law and its impact on the internal national legislation. Furthermore, the thesis also focuses on the currently valid legal regulation and its components and clarifies its basic terminology. The largest portion of the thesis focuses on the legal regulation of the individual instruments regulated primarily by the Act no. 201/2012 Coll., on the protection of air, with the primary focus being the stationary sources of pollution. These instruments are sorted into traditional groups, each respectively representing conceptual, administrative-legal and economic instruments. The chapter on conceptual instruments primarily focuses on the two fundamental instrumental programs, that is a) - The National Emission Reduction Program of the Czech Republic, and b) - programs aimed at improving air quality and their importance in legal regulation....

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Μπακαούκας, Νίκος. "Αεριοχρωματογραφική μελέτη της εναπόθεσης και αλληλεπίδρασης αερίων ρύπων με επιφάνειες έργων πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς επικαλυμμένες με διάφορα προστατευτικά υλικά." Thesis, 2008. http://nemertes.lis.upatras.gr/jspui/handle/10889/3659.

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Govender, Urishanie. "A resource allocation model to support air quality management in South Africa." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4714.

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South African Air Quality Units are continuously undergoing changes, and improving their performance remains a constant endeavour. In addition, these units are also experiencing several challenges in terms of improving communication across the different spheres, accessing air quality data and using the information to support the decision-making required for efficient management of air quality in South Africa. This study investigated the concept of output efficiency within the South African air quality management context. Models that enable efficient resource allocation can be used to assist managers in understanding how to become efficient. There are, however, few models that focus on the output efficiency of the public sector and air quality management units. The primary purpose of the study was to develop a model to predict the extent to which organisational efficiency could be explained by the percentage of man-hours allocated to a range of management activities. In this study, the development of a model using the logistic regression technique is discussed. Data was collected for two financial years (2005/6 and 2006/7) from the air quality officers in the national, provincial and local spheres of government (N=228). The logistic regression model fitted indicates that the proportion of time spent on knowledge management activities contributes the most to the likelihood of an Air Quality Unit being efficient. The resource allocation model developed will ensure that air quality officers allocate resources appropriately and improve their output performance.
Graduate School for Business Leadership
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Craig, Kathleen D. "Environmental regulations reconsidered : identifying incentives and barriers to environmental performance." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/33708.

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Attention has been drawn to the observation that environmental benefits under the current regulatory approaches are diminishing with respect to increased pollution control costs. Regulators have begun to appreciate that while environmental gains can still be achieved under the current command and control system, the most significant environmental gains have already been made, and an alternative regulatory approach might be warranted for continued environmental improvement. This study found that regulatory initiatives that seek to address business incentives and disincentives may yield better environmental outcomes. Internal characteristics such as corporate environmental directives, waste audit and environmental performance tracking systems and linkage of compensation to environmental performance are evident in firms that have attempted to adapt to regulatory pressures. These characteristics, according to organizational models, are posited to improve the environmental performance of firms as environmental issues are linked to key business decisions. This study was conducted by surveying firms in the forest products industry. Certain firms were found to exhibit specific internal characteristics indicative of good environmental performance. The study attempts to identify the implication this finding has on regulators in terms of policy design and implementation. The study suggests that the optimum regulatory strategy is a hybrid of a command and control approach and a market-based approach which blends the compliance assurance of the command and control approach to address motivating firm behavior with the flexibility of the market-based approach to provide firms incentives to improve environmental performance. The study concludes that the value of such a hybrid approach which attempts to address firm incentives and disincentives related to their environmental practices will result in improved environmental performance.
Graduation date: 1998

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Qian, Chengzhi. "A Quantitative Study Investigating the Attitudes toward Protective Behaviors against Outdoor PM2.5 Air Pollution Among Adults Living in Nanjing City, China." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-tgyz-4739.

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High PM2.5-related mortality and morbidity has become a public health concern in China. To date, there have been few studies investigating individual implementation and use of protective behaviors to counter outdoor PM2.5 air pollution levels in China. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate adults’ attitudes toward evidence-based protective behaviors against outdoor PM2.5 air pollution, the results of which might inform health educators and health promotion specialists about what they should emphasize when educating communities about protective behaviors in the PM2.5 air pollution days. Utilizing the purposing sampling method, a WeChat-based survey was conducted among 300 adult participants living in B residential area in Yuhuatai district of Nanjing, which is a representative city of high urbanization level and PM2.5 air pollution in China. The survey included total 16 items assessing participants’ background information, attitudes toward four evidence-based protective behaviors against PM2.5 air pollution, and knowledge regarding possibly effective protective approaches specifically related to Chinese medicine in the PM2.5 air pollution. The results showed that the importance adults in Nanjing attached to wearing N95 respirator when walking outside, putting air filter (HEPA) at home, and avoiding unprotected outdoor sports activities in the PM2.5 air pollution was greater than closing all the doors, windows, and many openings in the PM2.5 air pollution. Regarding comparison of attitudes between pre- and post-controlled COVID-19 periods, the value adults gave to closing all the doors, windows, and many openings in the PM2.5 air pollution was higher during pre-COVID-19 period, whereas the opposite of circumstance took place when referring to other three protective behaviors. Regarding comparison of attitudes between biographic variables, adults aged 18-50 (including 50) attached greater importance to all the four protective behaviors than those aged 50+. In addition, adults having the habit of checking daily AQI ranked the behaviors of avoiding outdoor sports activities and wearing N95 respirator when walking outside in the PM2.5 air pollution in a higher position than those not. Implications for future research and practice are discussed, based on a critique of the present work.

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PAJURKOVÁ, Romana. "Znečištění ovzduší v Moravskoslezském kraji a ochrana obyvatelstva." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-154733.

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Air pollution is extensive problem throughout Moravian-Silesian Region and in addition impacts many lives in so settled agglomeration. Harmful substances that here aloft occur often in several fold go beyond limit for health protection, are toxic to environment and people who live there, therefore it is so important for protection of people to deal with this topic. It is necessary to determine, how much actually air pollution affects the health of the people. Hypothesis H1 deals with question. In cooperation with the Department of Air Protection Hydro meteorological Institute in Ostrava and Regional hygiene station of Moravian-Silesian region, were compared data of the current PM10 pollution particles weekly morbidity and acute respiratory diseases. If condition of the air worsens, sickness does not improve and when air quality is improving, declining disease and acute respiratory infections in the region - between air pollution and health status of the population is correlation. For hypothesis H2 was created questionnaire, and was distributed to resident of region with rate of return of 87 %. The most general questions were answered correctly. The issue came to the question of determining current situation, so H2 hypothesis was confirmed only partially. The only way how to do protecting the population it is functional warning. Also it was investigated by a special comparative method, when resident were warned in which value of the PM10. 38 % residents say, that they were never warned, so the hypothesis H3 was also confirmed partly. After analyzing the problem was created proposal how to deal with this situation in ORP Bohumín case. Inhabitants of the region were divided into two groups. Active group, it is a group of people who have internet connection and do not use it. It was therefore created information leaflet and stickers, whose main task is to attract attention and show the population, where information about current pollution can be found. Part of this leaflet is also notes, in which people were less informed in questionnaire. The second group is passive then ? residents who do not have internet access or they cannot us it. So it was crated a system of rotating information board, and design its location in the ORP Bohumín in an public areas, where accumulate a larger number of people. On such a board could be automatically sent actual time data through network communication. It would be also appropriate add alarm warning system, but its execution would have to be limited to a certain level due to the frequent exceed in most municipalities in the region. There would be also possibility to benefit a warning to citizens through the fire protection of Volunteer firefighter. Especially if was declared by smog situation. Of course there is a also the option to use warning sirens, but I think it such a way of warning could cause unnecessary panic. The following suggestions are valid for both groups. It was displayed map of Low Emission Zone form information available in ORP Bohumín. System of isolation green spaces.. It was also examined whether the type of activity plan prepared long-term inverse situation in the region, but according to HZS does not pose a threat to the region, which would require the declaration of emergency state. So developments of operational plan isn´t necessary yet. However, the time is main aspect for gradual improvement of the warning and informing the population. The results showed that the general awareness of the issue is sufficient, but is also necessary to pay attention to the current situation in order to reduce the health risks to the lowest level. I am not sure that citizens must learn how to reconcile with living in conditions, but they should be patient, of course contribute to improve this situation by for example informing themselves about current pollution.

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