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Air Quality Management and Research in Southeast Asia / by Erik Velasco, Armando Retama, Dimitris Stratoulias

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System SciencesPublisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Springer, 2024Edition: 1st ed. 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 185 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9783031690884
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783031690877 | 9783031690891 | Erscheint auch als: 9783031690877 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031690891 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 333.7 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69088-4Online resources: Summary: 1. Introduction -- 2. Southeast Asia -- 3. Air pollution in Southeast Asia -- 4. Air quality data sources -- 5. Ambient air quality monitoring .Summary: This book examines the capabilities for monitoring air quality, developing emission inventories, and running chemical-transport models for regulatory, forecasting, and research purposes in Southeast Asia. It also reviews scientific efforts made to better understand and characterize air pollution in the region. Poor air quality poses a threat to public health. It affects people's lives and undermines economic growth, but as in many other parts of the world, it has been overlooked in Southeast Asia. International assessments suggest that it is the culprit of 260-thousand premature deaths in the region each year, entailing a monetary cost equivalent to 6.75% of the regional GDP. Reducing air pollution requires concerted efforts from all Southeast Asian nations to implement local and regional air quality policies following a science-policy approach. For such endeavor, it is essential to develop tools that enable timely and reliable air quality management. This entails collecting data to characterize the magnitude, origin, and impact of air pollution to support corrective actions. The objective of this book is to provide a starting point for a science-based conversation about implementing solutions to Southeast Asia's air pollution problem by bringing together an analysis of the availability of air quality data and studies from across the region.PPN: PPN: 1910714194Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-EES | ZDB-2-SXEE
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