Dry deposition of particle on urban areas

Giardina, Mariarosa; Buffa, Pietro; Cervone, A.; Lombardo, C.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1224/1/012050

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“…Today impacts of anthropic pressures on the environment remain a critical global problem and, in this field, it is very important to design regional air quality monitoring networks (or to qualify those already existing) with the purpose of providing efficiently control of impacts related to, for example, routine emissions; releases due to nuclear power plant accidents, or, more generally, conditions involving emissions of hazardous substances. The risk management should be targeted at choices generating strategies focused on accurate knowledge of territorial relationships between environmental pressures, anthropogenic impacts, and reconstruction of atmospheric depositions (EPA, 2003;Buchholz et al, 2010;Florent and Didier, 2014;Li et al, 2014;Giardina et al 2017;Giardina and Buffa, 2018;Connan et al, 2018;Giardina et al 2019).…”

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Fuzzy environmental analogy index to develop environmental similarity maps for designing air quality monitoring networks on a large-scale

Giardina

Buffa

Abita

et al. 2019

Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess

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All activities aimed to study primary causes and effects of air pollution cannot disregard the fact that is necessary to have an optimal Air Quality Monitoring Network (AQMN) for assessing population exposure to air pollution and predicting the magnitude of the health risks. In the framework of a cooperation between ARPA Sicilia organisation and Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, researches were performed to develop an innovative methodology useful to define environmental similarity maps, aimed at supporting the design of air quality monitoring networks at regional scale. This approach is based on new index, called fuzzy environmental analogy index (FEAI), based on fuzzy theory. FEAI is deduced by combining two indexes: meteorological pressure indicator (MPI) and anthropic pressure indicator (API). MPI allows to investigate, for the examined territory, analogies relevant to meteorological conditions, API emphasizes the importance of impacts related to anthropogenic or natural sources at regional scale. Finally, FEAI applications for a case study, related to Sicily region, Italy, are also described. The obtained results allow to confirm the capability of FEAI index to investigate similarities between neighboring areas, in terms of environmental pressures due to anthropic and natural sources, and so to identify gaps of the monitoring network used to define existing air quality conditions.

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Fuzzy environmental analogy index to develop environmental similarity maps for designing air quality monitoring networks on a large-scale

Giardina

Buffa

Abita

et al. 2019

Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess

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Urban greenery for air pollution control: a meta-analysis of current practice, progress, and challenges

Chaudhuri

Kumar²

2022

Environ Monit Assess

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Most governmental initiatives in India, to leash down urban air pollution, have yielded little results till date, largely due to purely technocratic vision, which is shrouded by technological, economic, social, institutional, and political hardships. We present this reflective article on urban greenery, as a proposition to urban authorities (e.g., pollution regulators, environmental systems’ managers, urban landscape planners, environmental policy makers), shift from purely technocratic way of thinking to thinking with nature , by strategic greening of urban spaces, for long-term air pollution prevention and control measures. To that end, we offer a meta-analysis of recent (post 2005) global literature using four-stage PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) approach. We open the narrative by briefing about main pollutant filtration mechanisms by trees, followed by cognitive aspects of species selection (e.g., deciduous vs. evergreen, air pollution tolerance index, environmental stressors). Till date, most Indian studies on urban greenery mostly but focused on physiological aspects of trees. Here, we draw attention of urban authorities to an equally compelling, but yet less explored, aspect: design criteria, with reference to two most common urban configurations, namely, street canyon and open road. With pictorial depictions, we enumerate various categories of street canyons and discuss aspect ratio (building height to street width) and various wind flow regimes (isolated roughness, wake interface, and skimming), that the urban authorities should be cognizant about to maximize pollutant removal efficiency. For open road, we discuss vegetation barriers, with special emphasis on canopy porosity/density functions. In the final sections, we reflect on a potential systems’ thinking approach for on-ground implementation, comprising of revamping of urban forestry programs, research and development, community mobilization and stakeholder engagement, and strategic outreach. In addition, we emphasize on means to harness co-benefits of urban greenery, beyond mere pollutant removal, to garner support from urban residents’ communities. Last but not the least, we also caution the urban authorities about the undesirable outcomes of urban greenery that will require more process-level research. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10661-022-09808-w.

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Activity concentration of 137Cs in undisturbed attic dust collected from Salgótarján and Ózd (northern Hungary)

Tserendorj

Szabó

Völgyesi

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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Dry deposition of particle on urban areas

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Fuzzy environmental analogy index to develop environmental similarity maps for designing air quality monitoring networks on a large-scale

Fuzzy environmental analogy index to develop environmental similarity maps for designing air quality monitoring networks on a large-scale

Urban greenery for air pollution control: a meta-analysis of current practice, progress, and challenges

Activity concentration of 137Cs in undisturbed attic dust collected from Salgótarján and Ózd (northern Hungary)

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