PPT-Health Impacts of Pollutants

TRADD part 3 Ari Rabl ARMINESEcole des Mines de Paris November 2013 Air Pollutants and their effects on health Primary Pollutant Secondary Pollutant Impacts particles BS PM 10. Introduction II Main air pollutants and their effects on human health and the environment III IV Policy approach to emissions at national and regional level of Short - lived Pollutants Drew Shindell • How do we think about climate impacts when short - lived species are involved? • Forcing is a useful metric to characterize the multiple r Who are we?. What do we do?. What is air pollution?. Discussion in groups. Pollution. The process of making the air, water or soil dirty. . Pollutants. A substance that makes the air, water or soil dirty.. Approximately 540 wildfires burned more than 45,000 acres this year.. A 33% increase in extreme precipitation between 1948 and 2011.. Richmond and Norfolk experienced the warmest January to July period in 2012 in almost 7 decades.. There . has been . rapid . worldwide advancements . in science and technology. But all these advancements have contributed to various forms of . pollution.. Sources.. 1.. Industries.. Industrial pollutants have been one of the major sources of pollution and affects resources like . Casey . GUillaume. MPH 500 Foundations of Public Health. Professor Madeline Angela Meyer. Overview. What are indoor air pollutants? . Air quality importance. Health risks. Behavioral factors. Social factors. Spring 2015. Dr. . Michael Rodgers. , Deputy Director. National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management. & . School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Georgia Institute of Technology. Air Quality and Remote Sensing. What is “Air Quality”?. The term “. Air Quality. ” can have many different definitions:. “A measure of the condition of air relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and or to any human need or purpose.” . Marti Blad, Ph.D., P.E. .. Yavapai Apache Nation. 2. What is the Difference?. 3. What we will learn. Pollutants move and spread in air. Up and down (vertical). Away and outward (horizontal). Dispersion vs Diffusion. = gases & particulate material added to the atmosphere. Can affect climate or harm people. Air pollution. = the release of pollutants. Outdoor (ambient) air pollution. = pollution outside. Has recently decreased due to government policy and improved technologies in developed countries. Climate Change| A Human Health Perspective. 2. Source: NOAA NCDC / CICS-NC. . The colors on the map show temperature changes over the past 22 years (1991-2012) compared to the 1901-1960 average for the contiguous U.S., and to the 1951-1980 average for Alaska and Hawai'i. Criteria Pollutants are certain pollutants known to be harmful to human health and welfare and for which National Ambient Air Quality Standards are established. EPA has identified and set standards to protect human health and welfare for ozone, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxide.. John Balbus, MD, MPH. Senior Advisor for Public Health. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. NOAA/MADE CLEAR Climate Change . Academy. Towson, Maryland. August 9, 2017. The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives. in SOUTHWAEST BULGARIA. Meeting . Thessaloniki, Greece, . 30. th. of November . 2015. Prof. Yoncho Pelovski. IMC-BAS-BSECEE. Calculated average indoor concentrations of chemical pollutants in the selected sites in Bulgaria.