Environmental Health Impacts of Transport and Mobility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Effects of Mobility on Health

   • P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati

   Pages 1-7

3. Traffic, Noise and Health

   • W. Babisch

   Pages 9-24

4. Environmental Noise, Annoyance and Sleep Disturbance

   • W. Passchier-Vermeer, W. F. Passchier

   Pages 25-38

5. Psychological and Social Aspects of "Transport and Health"

   • H. Moshammer, H.-P. Hutter, L. Schmidt

   Pages 39-52

6. Air Pollution and Health:

   • F. Ballester

   Pages 53-77

7. The Respiratory Effects of Air Pollution

   • T. Roussou, P. Behrakis

   Pages 79-94

8. Photochemical Activity of Importance to Health in the Aegean

   • C.S. Zerefos, I.S.A. Isaksen, K. Eleftheratos

   Pages 95-100

9. Monitoring of Suspended Aerosol Particles and Tropospheric Ozone by the Laser Remote Sensing (Lidar) Technique:

   • A.D. Papayannis

   Pages 101-113

10. Health Impact and Control of Particle Matter

    • L.W. Olson, K. Boison

    Pages 115-125

11. Endocrine Problems Related to Mobility

    • S. Livadas, D. Kaltsas, G. Tolis

    Pages 128-134

12. Sedentarism

    • H. Moshammer, E. Martin-Diener, U. Mäder, B. Martin

    Pages 135-154

13. Mobility and Transport in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and National Environmental Action Plans

    • L. Hens

    Pages 155-170

14. Integrating Health Concerns into Transport Policies:

    • F. Racioppi, C. Dora

    Pages 171-177

15. Mobility and Health in Bulgaria

    • S. Stoyanov, E. Terlemesian

    Pages 179-198

16. Health and Mobility in Flanders (Belgium)

    • P. Lammar, L. Hens

    Pages 199-222

17. Country Report Austria on Mobility, Environmental Issues, and Health

    • H. Moshammer, H.P. Hutter, L. Schmidt

    Pages 223-237

18. Health and Mobility in the UK

    • J.A. Newby, V.A. Mountford

    Pages 239-276

19. Effects of Mobility on Health - An Overview

    • P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L. Hems, P. Lammar, C.V. Howard

    Pages 277-307

20. Back Matter

    Pages 309-324

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The day I became the Flemish Minister for Mobility in 1999, my region of Flanders was one of the poorest students of the “EU class” for traffic safety. This was in spite of a variety of measures taken by previous governments, to improve traffic and safety because of unsafe driving behaviour and to reduce the emissions of traff- related pollutants. In this context, I focussed on one specific aspect of traffic safety: the number of traffic deaths and injuries on the roads. My intention was to raise a broad societal debate on mobility. It seemed to me that the most complex issue was to convince those people who are most intimately related to their cars, to leave their vehicles at home. After decades with slogans such as “My car, my freedom” it is politically impossible to withdraw this “freedom” on the basis of ecological arguments. I often noticed that although the majority of the population wants a cleaner environment, the same majority is convinced that ‘pollution is caused by others’. Moreover, the most important environmental problems tend to appear only in the long term. In contrast, the numerous, mainly young, victims on the road, among them the dead and the seriously injured youngsters from ‘weekend’ accidents are immediately visible. In 2001, Flanders totalled 848 road-accident deaths, 7725 seriously injured persons and 39070 minor injuries, from a total population of 6 million people. These are only the recorded figures.

• Environment
• Mobility
• Public Health
• Sedentarism
• noise
• transport
• air pollution and air quality

• Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece

  P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati

• Human Ecology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  L. Hens

• Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  C.V. Howard

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