A5073746094- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Environmental Sustainability and Education
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Marine and fisheries research
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Abstract Wildfire activity in the western United States (US) has been increasing, a trend that correlated with changing patterns of temperature and precipitation associated climate change. Health effects exposure to wildfire smoke fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) include short- long-term premature mortality, hospital admissions, emergency department visits, other respiratory cardiovascular incidents. We estimate PM health impacts for entire continental US from current future projected range...
Abstract National greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs) will play an increasingly important role in tracking country progress against United Nations (UN) Paris Agreement commitments. Yet uncertainty land use, use change, and forestry (LULUCF) NGHGHI estimates may undermine international confidence emission reduction claims, particularly for countries that expect forests agriculture to contribute large near-term GHG reductions. In this paper, we propose analytical framework implementing the...
Pollen is an important environmental cause of allergic asthma episodes. Prior work has established a proof concept for assessing projected climate change impacts on future oak pollen exposure and associated health impacts. This paper uses additional monitor data epidemiologic functions to extend prior analyses, reporting new estimates the current burden oak, birch, grass across contiguous United States. Our results suggest that tree in spring currently accounts between 25,000 50,000...
Policy analysts and researchers often use models to translate expected emissions changes from pollution control policies estimates of air resulting in health impacts. These can include both photochemical Eulerian grid or reduced complexity models; these latter make simplifying assumptions about the emissions-to-air quality relationship as a means reducing computational time needed simulate quality. This manuscript presents new database photochemical- complexity-modelled annual average...
Air pollution risk assessments do not generally quantify health impacts using multipollutant estimates, but instead use results from single-pollutant or copollutant models. Multipollutant epidemiological models account for pollutant interactions and joint effects can be computationally complex data intensive. Risk estimates studies are therefore challenging to implement in the quantification of impacts.
Reduced-form modeling approaches are an increasingly popular way to rapidly estimate air quality and human health impacts related changes in pollutant emissions. These reduce computation time by making simplifying assumptions about source characteristics, transport chemistry. Two reduced form tools used the Environmental Protection Agency recent assessments apportionment-based benefit per ton (SA BPT) surfaces (SABAQS). In this work, we apply these two predict ambient summer-season ozone, annual PM
Deposition models, such as the Shoreline Model (SDM) used to quantify nearshore avian injuries resulting from 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, were developed improve estimates of mortality release into coastal and marine environments. Unlike earlier approaches injury quantification, simple counts carcasses on shoreline, a modeling approach allows trustees evaluate precision their estimate (i.e., develop confidence interval) can inform decision-making likely utility additional primary...
Abstract The present work consists of the analysis visitors' profile Superagüi National Park, located on north coast State Paraná, Brazil. During season 1998/1999 94 interviews were analysed. It was verified that most visitors can be considered as 'ecotourists', because their fits one commonly proposed in literature. Visitors' preferences related to activities and infrastructure critics are valuable indicators for park's future management.
Air pollution risk assessments often use results from epidemiologic studies to quantify health impacts of air quality changes individual pollutants, but tend not account for exposure complex mixtures. Multipollutant statistical models consider collinearity among pollutants by identifying mixtures commonly emitted specific sources. Using a proof-of-concept version the environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program—Community Edition (BenMAP-CE) we aim answer: (1) can multipollutant (joint...
Climate change is expected to increase wildfire frequency and intensity around the globe. Examples of these impacts can already be observed in recent historical record, as effects climate continue intensify over coming century, several studies predict a continuation this trend. A modeling study demonstrated that global area burned may by approximately 8% 2050 30% 2100. This has potential nullify anticipated declines anthropogenic sources fine particulate matter (PM2.5), wildfires become more...