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Chemical, Microbiological, Health and Comfort Aspects of Indoor Air Quality - State of the Art in SBS

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Helmut Knöppel

    1. Joint Research Centre, Environment Institute, Commission of the European Communities, Ispra, Italy

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  2. Peder Wolkoff

    1. Danish National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Eurocourses: Chemical and Environmental Science (EUCE, volume 4)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. The Sick Building Syndrome — Overview and Frontiers

      • Thomas Lindvall
      Pages 1-14

  4. Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Humans

    1. Irritation of the upper airways. Mechanisms and structure-activity relationships

      • Gunnar Damgård Nielsen, Lea Frimann Hansen, Yves Alarie
      Pages 99-114

    2. Assessment Methods and Causes of Eye Irritation in Humans in Indoor Environment

      • S. Kjærgaard
      Pages 115-127

    3. Indoor Environment and the Skin

      • Berndt Stenberg
      Pages 129-140

    4. Sensory Effects for Indoor Air Quality Control

      • Birgitta Berglund
      Pages 141-154

    5. Indoor Air Pollution: Immunological Interactions

      • B. O. Brooks, F. D. Aldrich
      Pages 155-179

    6. Indoor Pollution and Allergic Sensitization

      • Akm Munir, Bengt Björkstén
      Pages 181-199

    7. Chemical Hyper-Responsiveness

      • R. Marchant
      Pages 201-229

    8. Some Studies of Human Reactions from the Emissions of Building Materials and Office Machines

      • Peder Wolkoff
      Pages 231-246

    9. Human Reactions to Controlled Exposures to VOC’s and the “TOTAL-VOC” Concept

      • L. Mølhave
      Pages 247-261

  5. ’Sick’ Building Epidemiology

    1. Questionnaires in Exposure and Effect Assessment in the Field

      • Birgitta Berglund, Thomas Lindvall
      Pages 263-273

    2. The Effects of Microbiological Pollution in Buildings — Results of Building Investigations

      • C. A. C. Pickering
      Pages 275-286

    3. Building Epidemiology — Approaches and Results (European Experience)

      • C. A. C. Pickering
      Pages 287-294
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About this book

Interest in indoor air quality (IAQ) is growing at public, political and scientific levels. Complaints about poor IAQ, associated with acute symptoms such as mucous irritation, headaches and bad odor occur frequently, particularly in the office environment, where typical patterns of symptoms often occur, leading to the coining of the term `Sick Building Syndrome'.
In the present book, internationally known experts address the following issues:
  • the dynamics of the indoor environment and strategies for indoor measurement
  • chemical and microbiological pollution, important species, sources and detection methods
  • effects of indoor pollution, in particular
  • sensory irritation, including odor
  • airway, eye and skin irritation by organic indoor pollutants and their assessment
  • immune effects, including allergic sensitization
  • chemical hyper-responsiveness
  • controlled human reactions to organic pollutants
  • building investigation: approaches and results
  • source characterization and control
  • criteria, norms and techniques in indoor air pollution, and regulatory aspects.
The complex, multifactorial nature of sick building syndrome requires multidisciplinary collaboration from very diverse fields. It is evident that communication between researchers coming from very different areas, all speaking their own language, is a difficult task. This book, presenting as it does the state of the art on sick buildings and how to cure them, is a sound foundation on which to build for the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Joint Research Centre, Environment Institute, Commission of the European Communities, Ispra, Italy

    Helmut Knöppel

  • Danish National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Peder Wolkoff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chemical, Microbiological, Health and Comfort Aspects of Indoor Air Quality - State of the Art in SBS

  • Editors: Helmut Knöppel, Peder Wolkoff

  • Series Title: Eurocourses: Chemical and Environmental Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8088-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1703-6Published: 31 March 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4152-4Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8088-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0925-6679

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 378

  • Topics: Public Health, Physical Chemistry, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology

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