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Investigating the impact of urban-environmental factors on air pollutants: a land use regression model approach and health risk assessment
The presence of pollutants in the earth's atmosphere has a direct impact on human health and the environment. So that pollutants such as carbon...
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Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Energy Transition
Given the ongoing worldwide transition towards a sustainable energy trajectory, it is imperative to prioritize the advancement of technologies that...
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Food Waste Environmental Impact Assessment
Food waste constitutes a global concern with wide-ranging environmental repercussions. In this chapter, we delve into the assessment of food waste's...
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Assessment of Human Health Impact of Particulate Matter Formation from Industry Textile Boiler in Cambodia
Fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 µm and smaller (PM2.5) is a significant air pollutant that affects human health. This present study...
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Potential and health impact assessment of air pollutant emission reduction: a case study of China
Air pollution has become the world’s largest human health and environmental risk factor. This study used the greenhouse gas and air pollution...
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Environmental Impact Assessment: Principles, Methodology and Conceptual Framework
Public approval of an environmental analysis and impact assessment project is usually coupled with different conditions that the project is required...
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The environmental justice implications of the Paris low emission zone: a health and economic impact assessment
BackgroundReducing the mortality burden associated with urban air pollution constitutes a public health priority, and evidence of unequal exposure...
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Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop
Sub-optimal dietary patterns make major contributions to the Global Burden of Disease and are among the most pressing issues affecting human health....
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Characteristics and Impact Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
Landfilling and open dum** have been the most widely used municipal solid waste (MSW) management strategies over the past decades due to lower...
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Correlation analysis of life cycle impact assessment methods and their impact categories in the food sector: representativeness and predictability of impact indicators
PurposeIn the past three decades, a variety of life cycle impact assessment methods have been developed and applied to industrial sectors, but the...
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Health impact pathways related to air quality changes: testing two health risk methodologies over a local traffic case study
Air pollution causes damage and imposes risks on human health, especially in cities, where the pollutant load is a major concern, although the extent...
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Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Health impact assessment (HIA) is a process to evaluate the health impacts of plants, policies, as well as projects quantitatively and qualitatively....
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Large transboundary health impact of Arctic wildfire smoke
Rapid warming at high latitudes, particularly in Siberia, has led to large wildfires in recent years that cause widespread smoke plumes. These fires...
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Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment
PurposeAlthough a wide number of industrial processes routinely release radionuclides into the environment, the resulting potential impacts on human...
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Environmental impact assessment of red mud utilization in concrete production: a life cycle assessment study
This study aims to evaluate the environmental impact of using red mud (RM) as a partial replacement for cement in concrete production. Using...
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Combined assessment of health hazard and odour impact of soils at a contaminated site: a case study on a defunct pharmaceuticals factory in China
Surveys and assessments of contaminated sites primarily focus on hazardous pollutants in the soil with less attention paid to odorants. This makes...
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Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil
PurposeThe impact of particulate matter (PM) formation on human health in Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) can be characterized through combining...
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Soil heavy metal pollution and health risk assessment around Wangchun Industrial Park, Ningbo, China
PurposeTo explore the soil heavy metal pollution around Wangchun Industrial Park and its health effects on people of different ages.
Methods ...
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Characteristics and health risk assessment of indoor and outdoor PM2.5 in a rural village, in Northeast of China: impact of coal and biomass burning
Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) has health effects that may depend on its sources and chemical composition. In this study, characteristics of PM 2.5 ...
