[HTML][HTML] How can vegetation protect us from air pollution? A critical review on green spaces' mitigation abilities for air-borne particles from a public health perspective …

A Diener, P Mudu - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Air pollution causes the largest death toll among environmental risks globally, but
interventions to purify ambient air remain inadequate. Vegetation and green spaces have …

A review of strategies for mitigating roadside air pollution in urban street canyons

Y Huang, C Lei, CH Liu, P Perez, H Forehead… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban street canyons formed by high-rise buildings restrict the dispersion of vehicle
emissions, which pose severe health risks to the public by aggravating roadside air quality …

Digital economy and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level

W Zhang, X Liu, D Wang, J Zhou - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the effect and mechanisms of digital economy (diec) on carbon
emission performance (cop). Specifically, based on the panel data of 277 cities in China …

Amplified ozone pollution in cities during the COVID-19 lockdown

P Sicard, A De Marco, E Agathokleous, Z Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on air pollution in
four Southern European cities (Nice, Rome, Valencia and Turin) and Wuhan (China) was …

[HTML][HTML] Urban population exposure to air pollution in Europe over the last decades

P Sicard, E Agathokleous, A De Marco… - Environmental Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Background The paper presents an overview of air quality in the 27 member countries of the
European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (previous EU-28), from 2000 to 2017. We …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollution and DNA methylation: effects of exposure in humans

CF Rider, C Carlsten - Clinical epigenetics, 2019 - Springer
Air pollution exposure is estimated to contribute to approximately seven million early deaths
every year worldwide and more than 3% of disability-adjusted life years lost. Air pollution …

Ozone weekend effect in cities: Deep insights for urban air pollution control

P Sicard, E Paoletti, E Agathokleous… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Studying weekend-weekday variation in ground-level ozone (O 3) allows one to better
understand O 3 formation conditions, with a potential for developing effective strategies for O …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-based solutions as enablers of circularity in water systems: A review on assessment methodologies, tools and indicators

CE Nika, L Gusmaroli, M Ghafourian, N Atanasova… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Water has been pushed into a linear model, which is increasingly acknowledged of causing
cumulative emissions of pollutants, waste stocks, and impacting on the irreversible …

Ground-level ozone over time: an observation-based global overview

P Sicard - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropospheric ozone (O 3) pollution is a major air quality issue for human health, vegetation,
and climate worldwide. Through an extensive literature review, this paper reports robust …

Effect of O3, PM10 and PM2.5 on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in cities of France, Iran and Italy

P Sicard, YO Khaniabadi, S Perez, M Gualtieri… - … science and pollution …, 2019 - Springer
At present, both tropospheric ozone (O 3) and particulate matters (PM) are among the most
threatening air pollutants for human health in cities. The air pollution effects over public …