Air quality: The impacts of UK university research

Williams, Ben

Abstract

Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk facing humanity in modern times. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 7 million people died as a result of exposure to air pollution worldwide in 2012, equivalent to one in every eight recorded. The greatest burden was carried by countries in the South-East Asian and Western Pacific regions, where 3.3 million deaths were linked to indoor air pollution and a further 2.6 million linked to outdoor air pollution. In Europe, air pollution has contributed to approximately 400,000 deaths a year, and in the UK both PM2.5 and NO2 have been associated with more than 50,000 premature deaths a year.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2015
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Dec 9, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: May 19, 2016
• Journal: Environmental Scientist
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 40-45
• Keywords: air quality, research, impact, REF, case studies
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/804048
• Publisher URL: https://www.the-ies.org/resources/impact-environmental-science
• Contract Date: May 19, 2016