Current air quality plans in Europe designed to support air quality management policies

Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis: New Evidence to Support Air Quality Policies

Increasing attention is being paid to the subject of air pollution, with the bulk of previous work being done in animal models suggesting that exposure to air pollution causes atherosclerosis—stiffening and calcification of the arteries—in rabbits and mice [1,2]. The new findings of Sara Adar and colleagues, published in this week’s PLOS Medicine [3], take us a step forward in clarifying the br...

Urban Air Quality Management

Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe

Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people’s welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges three waves of the European Social Survey with a new dataset on environmental quality including SO2 ...

Air Quality in Europe: Today and Tomorrow

The last “Air quality in Europe” report by the European Environmental Agency (EEA 2015) foresees almost five millions of years of life lost (YOLL) in the 28 EU Member States due to the high concentrations of PM2.5. YOLLs are an estimate of the average years that a person would have lived if he or she had not died prematurely, giving greater weight to deaths at a younger age and lower weight to ...

High resolution air quality simulation over Europe

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