"The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort. Poor environmental conditions and indoor contaminants are estimated to cost the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars a year in exacerbation of illnesses like asthma, allergic symptoms, and subsequent lost product…
Management of natural resources, sustainable development and ecological hazards
by Brebbia, C. A., Tiezzi, Enzo, International Conference on the Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Ecological Hazards, Patagonia, Argentina and Chile), Conti, M. E.
fromWIT transactions on ecology and the environment
"Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a historical po…
"China's rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation. China's Air Pollution Problem…
