Industrial Pollution

Industrial atmospheric pollution, historical land use patterns and mortality.

BACKGROUND The measurement of atmospheric pollution for epidemiological studies is problematic. This study presents a new proxy measure of atmospheric pollution of industrial origin and uses it to determine, at electoral ward level, the relationship between atmospheric pollution and all-cause mortality. METHODS All-cause Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), all ages, and for persons under 65 ...

Industrial Pollution and Environmental Health in Rural China: Risk, Uncertainty and Individualization*

After more than three decades of extremely rapid industrial growth, China faces an environmental public health crisis. In this article, I examine pollution in the rural industrial sector and its implications for community health. Drawing on recent ethnographic research in an industrial township in rural Sichuan, including interviews with government officials, environmental regulators, industria...

How the Chinese System of Charges and Subsidies Affects Pollution Control Efforts by China’s Top Industrial Polluters

While there are extensive theoretical studies on firms’ responses to environmental regulations and enforcement, there are few empirical analyses of firms’ expenditures on pollution abatement in responding to different regulations and enforcement strategies. This paper presents an empirical analysis of pollution abatement efforts of Chinese industrial firms under a combination of pollution charg...

Assessment of Industrial Pollution Load in Lagos, Nigeria by Industrial Pollution Projection System (IPPS) versus Effluent Analysis

Overview on Attenuation of Industrial Air Pollution by Greenbelt

Urban air pollution due to industrial emission and vehicular emission due to automobiles has aggravated the problem of environmental pollution. Plants are known to act as sink for air pollutants. Planting of trees and shrubs in the form of greenbelt around the industry is an effective way for abatement of pollution and improvement of environment and is well recognized throughout the world. This...

Using “bryophytes and their associated testate amoeba― microsystems as indicators of atmospheric pollution

Testate amoebae (TA) associated with terrestrial mosses are increasingly used in ecological and ecotoxicological studies. The TA community is sensitive to changes in its environment (climate change, metal or gas pollution). In this study, a “bryophyte-TA” microsystem was investigated as an indicator of dry particulate deposition and NO2 atmospheric concentration over an 8-month period in rural,...