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The Impact of Air Pollution on Ecosystem Safety, Human Health, and Sustainable Development

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 3358

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Guofeng Shen

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College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: combustion emissions; regional transport and fates; exposure and risk assessment; energy–environment–health nexus
Dr. Gang Li

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School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Interests: renewable bioenergy; environmental impacts assessment; resource recovery; circular economy based clean technologies
Dr. Nan Zhao

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School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Interests: lignocellulose recycling technology; thermal conversion of biomass and its emission reduction; bio-based material; environment–health–economic–climate benefit analyses

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Air pollution should be a huge political issue due to its substantial impact on public health. Many studies have estimated significant associations of air pollution with population health damage and economic loss, attracting large international attention. Long-term exposure to atmospheric PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NOX, O3, PAHs, and VOCs has a significant adverse impact on human health and is considered a major cause of morbidity and illnesses including cardiovascular, respiratory, and lung diseases, which could result in a massive health burden and loss of productivity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ambient air pollution causes eight million global premature deaths every year, and approximately 50% of these are mainly due to the intake of PM2.5, leading to a loss of 103 million disability-adjusted life years. To improve healthcare, it is urgent that the nonlinear relationships between premature mortality caused by long-term/short-term exposures to different air pollutants and emissions from multiple sectors are evaluated via the combination of tools, such as the chemical transport model, extended response surface model, concentration–response functions, etc. The health benefits from emission reduction due to optimized control measures in different fields, such as industry, fuel consumption, traffic, daily life, etc., should also be quantified. Related research findings could help policymakers and advocates from public, private, and nonprofit sectors to develop further actions that protect public health. Papers addressing these topics, including but not limited to air pollutant emissions, energy transition, low-carbon and low-pollutant emission technologies, the ecosystem and human health impacts associated with air pollution, and sustainable development, are invited for this Special Issue.

Dr. Guofeng Shen
Dr. Gang Li
Dr. Nan Zhao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • air pollution
  • indoor air quality
  • environmental effect
  • human health
  • public health
  • economic benefit
  • premature death
  • respiratory disease

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A Fine-Grained Recognition Neural Network with High-Order Feature Maps via Graph-Based Embedding for Natural Bird Diversity Conservation
by Xin Xu, Cheng-Cai Yang, Yang Xiao and Jian-Lei Kong
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4924; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064924 - 10 Mar 2023
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The conservation of avian diversity plays a critical role in maintaining ecological balance and ecosystem function, as well as having a profound impact on human survival and livelihood. With species’ continuous and rapid decline, information and intelligent technology have provided innovative knowledge about [...] Read more.
The conservation of avian diversity plays a critical role in maintaining ecological balance and ecosystem function, as well as having a profound impact on human survival and livelihood. With species’ continuous and rapid decline, information and intelligent technology have provided innovative knowledge about how functional biological diversity interacts with environmental changes. Especially in complex natural scenes, identifying bird species with a real-time and accurate pattern is vital to protect the ecological environment and maintain biodiversity changes. Aiming at the fine-grained problem in bird image recognition, this paper proposes a fine-grained detection neural network based on optimizing the YOLOV5 structure via a graph pyramid attention convolution operation. Firstly, the Cross Stage Partial (CSP) structure is introduced to a brand-new backbone classification network (GPA-Net) for significantly reducing the whole model’s parameters. Then, the graph pyramid structure is applied to learn the bird image features of different scales, which enhances the fine-grained learning ability and embeds high-order features to reduce parameters. Thirdly, YOLOV5 with the soft non-maximum suppression (NMS) strategy is adopted to design the detector composition, improving the detection capability for small targets. Detailed experiments demonstrated that the proposed model achieves better or equivalent accuracy results, over-performing current advanced models in bird species identification, and is more stable and suitable for practical applications in biodiversity conservation. Full article
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Preparation and Performance of Carbon-Based Ce-Mn Catalysts for Efficient Degradation of Acetone at Low Temperatures
by Tong Li, Zhibo Wang, Yue Shi and Xiaolong Yao
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16879; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416879 - 15 Dec 2022
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Based on the porous carbon material from citric acid residue, catalysts of different Ce-Mn ratios were prepared with incipient-wetness impregnation (IWI) to delve into their acetone-degrading performance and relevant mechanisms. When the Ce-Mn molar ratio is 0.8, the prepared catalyst Ce0.8-Mn/AC [...] Read more.
Based on the porous carbon material from citric acid residue, catalysts of different Ce-Mn ratios were prepared with incipient-wetness impregnation (IWI) to delve into their acetone-degrading performance and relevant mechanisms. When the Ce-Mn molar ratio is 0.8, the prepared catalyst Ce0.8-Mn/AC shows abundant and uniformly dispersed Mn and Ce particles on the surface. The content of Mn and Ce on the Ce0.8-Mn/AC surface reaches 5.64% and 0.75%, respectively. At the acetone concentration of 238 mg/m3 (100 ppm), the laws of acetone degradation in different catalysts at different catalyzing temperatures and with various oxygen concentrations were studied, and we found that the rate of acetone degradation by Ce0.8-Mn/AC can exceed 90% at 250 °C. Cerium oxide and manganese oxide are synergistic in the catalytic degradation of acetone. Adding cerium to manganese-based catalysts can increase the oxygen migration rate in the catalysts and thus raise the reduction rate of lattice oxygen in manganese oxide. The results offer new ideas and approaches for the efficient and comprehensive utilization of bio-fermentation by-products, and for the development of cheap and high degradation performance catalysts for acetone. Full article
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