Advances in Air Quality Monitoring Towards Reducing Air Pollution and Health Impacts
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 3699
Special Issue Editors
Interests: application of process sytems engineering tools to environmental and chemical engineering problems; multivariate statistical methods and models; air quality monitoring and modeling
Interests: impact of air quality on public health; assessment and management of air quality; atmospheric emissions from shipping; indoor air quality and its impact on childhood asthma–epidemiology; low-cost sensors for air quality measurements; air quality modeling
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Interests: indoor air quality; outdoor air pollution; exposure modelling; occupational exposure; health impacts; mitigation strategies; low-cost sensors for air quality monitoring; statistical analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The right to breathe healthy air is a fundamental right for all. This right is violated every day, as 90% of the world's population breathes polluted air outdoors and indoors, causing 7 million deaths annually. Therefore, there is a strong need for more comprehensive data on air quality worldwide.
For that reason, monitoring air pollutants is highly important and should be performed in both outdoor and indoor environments. Air quality monitoring can be performed with reference or research-grade instruments, or even with low-cost sensors or other emerging technologies. It can be done using either fixed, mobile or portable monitors that can be used alone or organised in networks. These can be used either for personal exposure or ambient air monitoring (outdoors or indoors) and sample actively (continuously) or passively. In any case, validation and calibration are required to ensure the reliability and quality of the data collected.
One of the most significant uses of reliable air quality monitoring data is to establish a credible link with health impacts. Another very important purpose is to support the validation of models. Modeling is advantageous, as it allows understading the spatial and temporal trends of air pollution.
As such, this Special Issue will focus on air quality monitoring, including all types of methodologies, techniques, and applications. By doing so, this Special Issue will be a useful supplement to the existing literature as it will gather worldwide innovative research on air quality monitoring, including a plethora of techniques reliable enough to be used as tools for improving air quality, for modeling validation, and for assessing air pollution impacts on health.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Gomes Martins
Dr. Sofia Sousa
Dr. Pedro Branco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air quality monitoring
- reference instruments
- research-grade instruments
- low-cost sensors
