Environmental sustainability of industrial land use

"Elucidation of spatial disparities of factors that affect air pollutant concentrations in industrial regions at a continental level "

Air pollutant concentrations, industrial lands, spatial statistics

Industrial infrastructures supporting mining, manufacturing, utility supply and waste services produce over 95% of nationwide air pollutant emissions.  What can be the predominant factor affecting air pollutant concentrations in these industrial regions? Do we need to take action? See our work here: 

Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Luo, P., Wu, P., Liu, X., Wang, M. (2023). Elucidation of spatial disparities of factors that affect air pollutant concentrations in industrial regions at a continental level. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: ITC Journal, 117(103221), 103221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103221.

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 The results indicated a significant spatial disparity in the air pollutant concentrations in the industrial region, at a continental scale. Anthropogenic factors significantly affected the spatial patterns of air pollutant concentrations in the industrial regions that were remote to cities, whereas meteorological and topographical factors had significant impacts on the air pollutant concentrations in urban industrial regions. Furthermore, within the nationwide industrial lands, in over 90% of the industrial regions having high concentrations of ozone and sulphur dioxide, the drivers of the air pollutant concentrations were environmental factors; high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide were more associated with the topographical features of the region.