Air Pollution - Health and Environmental Impacts - B. Gurjar, et al., (CRC, 2010) WW

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AIR
POLLUTION

Health and
Environmental Impacts

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POLLUTION

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To “Those Committed to Improving Air Quality across the World”

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Contents

Foreword ...................................................................................................................xi
Preface.................................................................................................................... xiii
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................xv
Editors ....................................................................................................................xvii
Contributors ............................................................................................................xix

1.
Chapter
Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Concerns ............................1

Bhola R. Gurjar, Luisa T. Molina, and Chandra S.P. Ojha

I
SectIon Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling

2.
Chapter
Air Pollution Monitoring and Source Characterization .....................19

Anita Lakhani, Rajasekhar Balasubramanian,
and Bhola R. Gurjar

3.
Chapter
Air Pollution Modeling: Theory and Application ..............................45

Chandra S.P. Ojha, Marcelo Mena, Sarath Guttikunda,
Bhola R. Gurjar, and Wenfang Lei

II
SectIon Air Pollution and Health effects

4.
Chapter
Indoor Air Pollution and Health Effects ..........................................109

Radha Goyal and Mukesh Khare

5.
Chapter
Effects of Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass
Fuel Use on Women’s Health in India .............................................. 135

Twisha Lahiri and Manas Ranjan Ray

6.
Chapter
Health Effects of Urban Air Pollution in India ................................ 165

Manas Ranjan Ray and Twisha Lahiri

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7.
Chapter
Air Pollutants Exposure and Health Effects during the

MILAGRO–MCMA2006 Campaign ...............................................203

Horacio Tovalin, Olf Herbarth, Martha P. Sierra-Vargas,
Bo Strandberg, Salvador Blanco, Libia Vega,
Constantinos Sioutas, Juan J. Hicks, Rubén Marroquín,
Gustavo Acosta, Marco Guarneros, Vicente Hernández,
Elizabeth Estrada-Muñiz, Ivonne M. Olivares, Dora A. Pérez,
Yessica Torres-Ramos, Frank Ulrich, Robyn Hudson,
Ernesto Reyes, Tracy Rodríguez, Guillermo Elizondo, and
Eliseo Cantellano

8.
Chapter
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Sources,
Distribution, and Health Implications ..............................................229

Nirat Rajput and Anita Lakhani

9.
Chapter
Cellular Mechanisms behind Particulate Matter Air

Pollution–Related Health Effects .....................................................249

Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno, Claudia García-Cuellar,
Andrea De-Vizcaya-Ruiz, Leonora Rojas-Bracho,
and Alvaro R. Osornio-Vargas

SectIon III Health Risk Assessment
and Management

1.0.
Chapter
Emission of Airborne Particulate Matter in Indoor
Environments: Exposure and Risk Assessment ...............................277

Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, See Siao Wei,
and Sathrugnan Karthikeyan

1.1.
Chapter
Estimation of Health Impacts due to PM10 in

Major Indian Cities ...........................................................................297

Prabhakar Nema and Sanjeev K. Goyal

1.2.
Chapter
Health Risk Assessment and Management for
Air Toxics in Indian Environment ................................................... 311

Manju Mohan and Bhola R. Gurjar

Contents
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SectIon IV Air Quality Management: techniques
and Policy Aspects

1.3.
Chapter
The Economics of Air Pollution: Theories,
Valuation Methods, and Policy Aspects ...........................................327

Dilek Demirbas

1.4.
Chapter
Elements of Air Quality Management: Atmospheric
Science Tools for Developing Effective Policy ................................363

Jeffrey R. Brook, Michael D. Moran, William Pennell,
and Lorraine Craig

V environmental Impacts of Air Pollution
SectIon

1.5.
Chapter
Assessing Ground-Level Ozone (O3) Impacts to
Crops in Parts of Asia and Southern Africa:
The Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries
(RAPIDC) Crops Project ................................................................. 421

Lisa D. Emberson, Patrick Büker, Magnuz Engardt,
Anna M. van Tienhoven, Madhoolika Agrawal, Mark Zunckel,
Kevin Hicks, Håkan Pleijel, Nguyen T. K. Oanh, Lal P. Amgain,
Towhid Islam, Syed R.A. Shamsi, G. Anoma D. Perera,
Gert H.J. Krüger, and Pieter R. Smit

1.6.
Chapter
Impacts of Air Pollution on the Ecosystem and Human Health:
A Sustainability Perspective ............................................................447

Ioan Manuel Ciumasu and Naela Costica

1.7.
Chapter
Regional and Global Environmental Issues of Air Pollution ...........493

Luisa T. Molina and Bhola R. Gurjar

Index ...................................................................................................................... 519