Conservation of Urban Air Quality

Urban Air Quality Management

Urban Structure and Air Quality

The air quality in Danish urban areas.

The Danish air pollution abatement is based by and large on emission control. Since the ratification of the international sulfur protocol of 1985, there has been a continuous tightening of the permissible sulfur content in fuels and of the maximum emissions from power plants. As a consequence, the total annual emission of sulfur dioxide (SO2) has been reduced from 450,000 tons in the seventies ...

Air quality assessment in urban areas of Gipuzkoa (Spain).

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the air quality to which a population of 90,000 inhabitants in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain) is exposed. The population resides in a periurban environment, where industrial activity (11 iron and steel foundries) is scattered among residential areas. METHODS Throughout 2006 and 2007, levels of particulate matter less than 2.5mm in diameter (PM(2.5)) we...

SmartAQnet: remote and in-situ sensing of urban air quality

Air quality and the associated subjective and health-related quality of life are among the important topics of urban life in our time. However, it is very difficult for many cities to take measures to accommodate today’s needs concerning e.g. mobility, housing and work, because a consistent fine-granular data and information on causal chains is largely missing. This has the potential to change,...