Trends in urban air pollution over the last two decades: A global perspective

P Sicard, E Agathokleous, SC Anenberg… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Ground-level ozone (O 3), fine particles (PM 2.5), and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) are
the most harmful urban air pollutants regarding human health effects. Here, we aimed at …

Environmental risk factors and cardiovascular diseases: a comprehensive expert review

T Münzel, O Hahad, M Sørensen… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are fatal for more than 38 million people each year
and are thus the main contributors to the global burden of disease accounting for 70% of …

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 …

Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018

D Wang, D Guan, S Zhu, MM Kinnon, G Geng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent increases in the frequency and scale of wildfires worldwide have raised concerns
about the influence of climate change and associated socioeconomic costs. In the western …

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 …

Do carbon emissions impact the health of residents? Considering China's industrialization and urbanization

H Dong, M Xue, Y Xiao, Y Liu - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrialization and urbanization have aggravated the contradiction between environmental
protection and economic growth, leading to health issues. While there are considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Can commercial low-cost sensor platforms contribute to air quality monitoring and exposure estimates?

N Castell, FR Dauge, P Schneider, M Vogt… - Environment …, 2017 - Elsevier
The emergence of low-cost, user-friendly and very compact air pollution platforms enable
observations at high spatial resolution in near-real-time and provide new opportunities to …

Planning of urban green spaces: An ecological perspective on human benefits

T Semeraro, A Scarano, R Buccolieri, A Santino… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the context of urban land-use growth and the consequent impacts on the environment,
green spaces provide ecosystem services for human health. The ecosystem services …

Expert position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease

DE Newby, PM Mannucci, GS Tell… - European heart …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Air pollution has wide-ranging and deleterious effects on human health and is a major issue
for the global community. The Global Burden of Disease study has described the worldwide …

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

R Beelen, O Raaschou-Nielsen, M Stafoggia… - The lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Few studies on long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality have been
reported from Europe. Within the multicentre European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution …