Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change

This handbook discusses air quality/air pollution, focusing on its impacts on human health and climate change. It highlights the link between extreme weather events and anthropogenic global warming, emphasizing the need to reduce air pollutants with positive radiative forcing to mitigate climate change. The book covers various air pollutants, measurement methods, and regional impacts, as well as strategies for mitigation and international initiatives.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1505 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive handbook delves into the multifaceted aspects of air quality and air pollution, exploring their profound impacts on human health and the environment. Traditionally, air pollution has garnered significant attention due to its detrimental effects on human well-being, and it remains a pressing concern for public health and government authorities across most Asian countries. However, in recent years, the world has witnessed the emergence of extreme weather events, including stronger tropical cyclones, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and other phenomena, resulting in substantial loss of human lives and property.

Crucially, climate models have revealed that these extreme weather events are directly linked to anthropogenic global warming. It is now evident that mitigating or reducing the climate change that contributes to these extreme weather events in the next 30 years can only be achieved by reducing air pollutants with positive radiative forcing, known as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs).

Consequently, concerns about mitigating air pollutants from the perspectives of human health and climate change have converged. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of various air pollutants and radiative forcers, detailing their measurement methods and methodologies. It also sheds light on the air pollution situation across different continents, highlighting their regional impacts on human health, the environment, the economy, and the connection to extreme weather events.

The book further delves into strategies for mitigating air pollution and climate change, emphasizing the development of clean air technologies and international initiatives for collaborative efforts in air pollution control and climate change mitigation. By examining these critical topics, this handbook serves as a valuable resource for policymakers, researchers, and individuals seeking to address the pressing challenges posed by air quality and air pollution.

Weight: 3205g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811527593
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023