Overview
- Provides comprehensive information on urban air quality issues and their implementation within monitoring, modelling and management approaches
- Incorporates special chapters on indoor air quality, exposure assessment, and measurement techniques based on next generation sensors
- Includes case studies that illustrate the variety of real world air quality management problems
Part of the book series: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (STICEE)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Air Pollution Monitoring, Modelling, Health Risk and Control Engineering
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Case Studies
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Keywords
About this book
This contributed volume is primarily intended for graduate and professional audiences. The book provides a basic understanding of urban air quality issues, root causes for local and urban air pollution, monitoring and modelling techniques, assessment, and control options to manage air quality at local and urban scale. The book also offers useful information on indoor air quality and smart sensors, which are gaining much importance in current times.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Shiva Nagendra,SM is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi, India. Dr. Nagendra has more than 20 years' research experience mainly in the field of air quality monitoring, modelling, management, indoor air quality, personal exposure, control technologies and policy implications. His groups research is a mixture of filed and laboratory experiments, micro, local and urban scale air quality characterization, modelling and simulation. He has published more than 75 research publications in international and national peer reviewed journals, one reference book, and over 100 papers in peer reviewed conference proceedings. He is a member of several scientific committees, societies and technical institutions.He is the founding chairman of Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM) series and serves as the Vice President of Society for Indoor Environment.
Dr. Uwe Schlink is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and Professor at University of Leipzig, Institute of Meteorology. He is heading the Air Quality Research Group in the department. His research areas include urban climate research, thermal comfort, urban air quality;personal exposure and vulnerability with extreme environmental situations in urban areas; statistical modelling and Bayesian inference. He has published around 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 100 conference papers. He is a member of several scientific committees and societies.
Dr. Andrea Müller is a Senior Scientist in the Department Molecular System Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. Her research interestslie in air quality and their impact on human health. Her special research topics are related to: Exposure analyses (indoor and outdoor) of bio aerosols (pollen, mold, bacteria, allergens); Impact of environmental pollutant compounds (air particles) on cell systems; Toxicology and mode of action of single and mixture compounds; Development of methods for analyses of PAHs in particulate matter; Statistical analysis of association between exposure and health outcome; Modeling of distribution of air contaminants
​Dr. Mukesh Khare is presently working as a Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers India and Fellow of Wessex Institute of Great Britain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Faculty of Engineering from Newcastle University, UK and has managed a range ofenvironmental projects throughout his professional career. With a specialization in air quality modelling, Prof. Khare’s experience has covered research and development studies, teaching, consulting, modelling, editorial activities. In addition, Prof. Khare has authored more than 200 research publications primarily for peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of High Level Task Force (HLTF), under the Prime Minister Office, Government of India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Air Quality Monitoring, Modelling and Human Exposure Assessment
Editors: S. M. Shiva Nagendra, Uwe Schlink, Andrea Müller, Mukesh Khare
Series Title: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5511-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5510-7Published: 25 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5513-8Published: 27 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5511-4Published: 24 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2363-7633
Series E-ISSN: 2363-7641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 440
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Science and Engineering, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Building Physics, HVAC, Public Health