Exploring the multiple land degradation pathways across the planet

R Prăvălie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

Air pollution terrain nexus: A review considering energy generation and consumption

XC Wang, JJ Klemeš, X Dong, W Fan, Z Xu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Air pollution caused by energy generation and consumption is both a global as well as
localised issue. It contributes to global warming along with degradation in human health …

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 …

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] Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China

Z Feng, A De Marco, A Anav, M Gualtieri, P Sicard… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
China's economic growth has significantly increased emissions of tropospheric ozone (O 3)
precursors, resulting in increased regional O 3 pollution. We analyzed data from> 1400 …

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 …

Hormesis: a compelling platform for sophisticated plant science

E Agathokleous, M Kitao, EJ Calabrese - Trends in Plant Science, 2019 - cell.com
The field of dose–response has received attention from the early modern period in the
history of science. While it was thought that linear dose–response is the rule of thumb …

Should we see urban trees as effective solutions to reduce increasing ozone levels in cities?

P Sicard, E Agathokleous, V Araminiene, E Carrari… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Outdoor air pollution is considered as the most serious environmental problem for human
health, associated with some million deaths worldwide per year. Cities have to cope with the …

Projected global ground-level ozone impacts on vegetation under different emission and climate scenarios

P Sicard, A Anav, A De Marco… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of ground-level ozone (O 3) on vegetation is largely under-investigated at the
global scale despite large areas worldwide that are exposed to high surface O 3 levels. To …

Ozone modelling and mapping for risk assessment: an overview of different approaches for human and ecosystems health

A De Marco, H Garcia-Gomez, A Collalti… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tropospheric ozone (O 3) is one of the most concernedair pollutants dueto its widespread
impacts on land vegetated ecosystems and human health. Ozone is also the third …