Week 8

Air quality and human health PPTX

• Megacities

• Long-range pollution transport 

• Rising ozone background

• Air quality regulations

• Linking air quality and health: evidence 

 Supporting material (chronologically ordered)

• Anthropogenic terpenoids in urban air 

• Indoor air pollution: five ways to fight the hidden harms (Nature Comment, Feb 2023)

• Chief Medical Officer annual report 2022: air pollution

• Ozone-reducing urban plants (August 2022)

• Has the ultra low emission zone in London improved air quality? [Jan 2021]

• Wildfire smoke impacts respiratory health more than fine particles from other sources: observational evidence from Southern California

• Impact of Net Zero pathways on future UK air quality (Defra report)

• Covid and UK air quality (Defra report, 2020)

• How urban planners' preference for male trees has made your hay fever worse (May 2020)

• Cities struggling to boost urban tree cover (April 2020)

• Reductions in air pollutions due to spread of COVID-19 (March 2020)

• Air pollution: silent killer (Feb 2020)

• Short term effects of ozone and mortality (Feb 2020)

• Interplay between ozone and urban vegetation

• Compare PM pollution across the world (Dec 2019)

• Role of particulates around the world

• Trends in NO2 

• Guardian article on AQ and health

• Milan's temporary car ban

• Delhi's 'odd-even' car rationing 

• Smog City 2

• Bologna: beer/ice cream/coffee to avoid driving

• Soup and air quality

• Car ban and Mexico city air pollution

• Indian air quality (Feb 2017)

• Vietnamese air quality (Feb 2017)

• Climate journal special issue on urban climate, air pollution, and human health.

• Defra National Statistics Release: Air quality statistics in the UK 1987 to 2017

• Are cities as bad for the environment as we think? (Sept 2019)

• Inhaled particulate accumulation with age impairs immune function and architecture in human lung lymph nodes.

PPTX 

 Tutorial question 4

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Revision based on exam from May 2019.

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