With rapid economic growth, urbanization and industrialization, fine particulate matter with
aerodynamic diameters≤ 2.5 µm (PM 2.5) has become a major pollutant and shows …

With urban air quality being a pressing public health concern, community members are
becoming increasingly engaged in determining the links between air quality and human …

Conventional regulatory air quality monitoring sites tend to be sparsely located. The
availability of lower-cost air pollution sensors, however, allows for their use in spatially …

Air monitoring networks developed by communities have potential to reduce exposures and
affect environmental health policy, yet there have been few performance evaluations of …

Initiated in response to community concerns about high levels of air pollution and asthma,
the Imperial County Community Air Monitoring Project was conducted as a collaboration …

Citizen science programs have been used to identify and address socio-environmental
issues. Environmental participatory monitoring has been particularly effective in providing …

Air pollutants and socioeconomic factors have been found to be main contributors of
cardiovascular disease outcomes. Particulate matter (PM) and diesel PM (DPM) have been …

Many ecological phenomena occur in response to pulses. In desert ecosystems, pulses of
moisture drive many ecosystem processes, and without this moisture, pulses of wind can …

Abstract Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) occur due to the excessive growth of algal in
waterbodies such as lakes, rivers, and ponds. The cyanotoxins produced by HABs are …

This Chapter addresses a sub-research question on what are appropriate organization
designs for academic institutions and established and entrepreneur social enterprises in …