Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change
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Beschreibung
This handbook covers the air quality/air pollution from the viewpoints of causing impacts on human/ecosystem health and climate change. Traditionally, air pollution has been a concern mainly in terms of its impacts on human health, and it is still an immediate public and governmental concern in most Asian countries. However, in recent years so-called extreme weather events, such as stronger tropical cyclones, flooding, drought, and other phenomena, have been manifested causing tremendous losses of human lives and properties. Importantly, climate models tell us that such extreme weather events are actually induced by anthropogenic global warming. It has been pointed out that mitigation or alleviation of such climate change leading to the extreme weather events in the next 30 years can be possible only by reducing air pollutants with positive radiative forcing such as ozone or methane, which are called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). Here, concerns about mitigation of air pollutants from the points of human health and climate change have merged.
This book covers different kinds of air pollutants and radiative forcers and how they can be measured. It also mentions the situation of air pollutants in different continents and their regional impacts to human health, environment and economy as well as their link to extreme weather events. The book presents how the air pollution and climate change can be mitigated and how clean air technologies and international initiatives for co-controlling air pollution and climate change have been developed.
Provides basic information on air pollutants and radiative forcers Features current data from Europe, North America, Asia, and the Southern Hemisphere Includes mitigation of air pollutants and mid-term climate change by reducing SLCPs
Autor*in
Hajime Akimoto
Themen in »Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change«
Air quality Extreme weather events Anthropogenic global warming Air pollutants with positive radiative forcing Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) Climate change Air pollution Climate and clean air coalition manmade methane emissions climate pollutant mitigation