Full Description
The book is one of the outcomes of the SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) project titled "Fine particulates matters in the air environment and their cancer risks in human beings," sponsored by MHRD (now MoE), Govt. of India. The editors of the book are PIs and Co-PIs of the said project. The text deliberates on air pollution's health risks with contributions from well-known experts from diverse research fields (environmental science, toxicology, geology, public health science, biology, physics, chemistry, and geospatial technology). It explores it its control and mitigation strategies.
The book provides an up-to-date overview of the modern methods and tools used in air quality monitoring and human health risk assessment. Case studies from different global settings offer invaluable insights into air pollution-related regional health issues. It addresses all aspects of air quality, covering indoor-outdoor air pollution, gaseous and particulate pollutants; characterization of source and pathways of air pollutants; and the modeling and assessing of health risks (respiratory, epidemiological, and toxicological) with regional and global perspectives. It also addresses air quality management issues. The lucid explanation of the role of oxidative stress mechanisms and molecular biomarkers (genomics, proteomics) may be considered as inputs into the development of cancer therapeutics.
Along with providing a scientific basis for air pollution, this book will help readers appreciate the environmental determinants of public health and apply research evidence to improve the quality of life. It also delineates future research initiatives and policy actions needed to protect human health from air pollution, locally and globally. The book will be of great educational value and help for consultation and teaching.
Contents
Introduction.- Impacts of air pollution on human health in India: Present status and future directions.- Air quality monitoring using geospatial technology: A bibliometric analysis (2000-2020).- Air Pollution and human health: A medical geology perspective.- Application of land use regression model in air pollution assessment.- Particulate matters, microplastics, and mitochondrial health.- Recent Trends of Air Pollution and Its Implication on Human Health: A Spatio-Temporal Study of Two Coastal Cities of Goa.- Epidemiology of fine particulate air pollution and human health impacts.- Outdoor air quality and assessment of its potential health risk to human being.- Fine particulate matter related disability life adjusted years in Indian union territories.- Application of biomarkers on assessing human health impacts of air pollution.- Environmental emission from coal-fired power plants and control technology.- Oxidative Stress: The particulate linkage.- The health menace of myriad air pollutants: An Indian perspective.- Strategic urban air quality improvement: Perspectives on public health.
