Overview
- Includes fundamental information for policy-makers, environmental managers and other practitioners
- Discusses application of concepts related to atmospheric chemistry and meteorology to real air pollution situations
- Presents the use of satellite information together with surface measurements and models to address air pollution events
- Presents guidelines for future actions to mitigate air pollution
Part of the book series: ISSI Scientific Report Series (ISSI, volume 16)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Perspective
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Front Matter
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Analysis of In-Situ Measurements
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Keywords
- Air pollution and China and Asia
- Urbanization and China and Asia
- Satellite Observations and air pollution events
- Health and air pollution
- East Asia air pollution and atmospheric chemistry
- policy-makers and air pollution
- environmental management and air pollution
- air pollution and air quality
- industrial pollution prevention
About this book
This book, written by an international group of experts from China, Europe and the USA, presents a broad and comprehensive analysis of the chemical and meteorological processes responsible for the formation of air pollutants in eastern Asia, and in particular for the development of severe pollution episodes observed primarily during winter in the northeastern part of China. With the rapid population growth, economic development and urbanization occurring in Asia, air pollution has become a major environmental problem in this part of the world. The book is organized around six distinct parts. The first part of the volume offers a general perspective on issues related to air pollution including persistent haze events in eastern and southern Asia. The second part presents an overview of air pollution sources (i.e., anthropogenic and biomass burning sources). The third part analyzes in-situ observations of chemical species in China, while the fourth part focuses on space observations ofgas-phase and aerosol species. The modeling aspects are treated in the fifth part of the volume, which includes a presentation of several air quality forecast systems and an assessment of the role of urbanization on air pollution levels. Finally, the effects of air pollution on health and crop productivity in China are discussed in the last part of the book. The book also presents an integrated view of past and present situations in Asia and provides the scientific basis from which mitigation policies can be established and air quality can be improved.
Audience: This book is written for scientists, educators, students, environmental managers, policy-makers and leaders in public administration and private corporations who wish to use science-based information to mitigate air pollution. The book should help decision-makers to design effective policies for air quality improvement and to successfully manage short-term air pollution episodes that substantially affect people’s quality of life and strongly impact the economy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Guy P. Brasseur is the Leader of Environmental Modeling Group at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and a Distinguished Scholar at the National center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. His scientific interests include atmospheric sciences and air quality, climate change, and science-policy interactions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective
Editors: Idir Bouarar, Xuemei Wang, Guy P. Brasseur
Series Title: ISSI Scientific Report Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59489-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59488-0Published: 05 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86634-5Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59489-7Published: 18 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-1278
Series E-ISSN: 2946-1286
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 504
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 183 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Sustainable Development, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Environmental Management