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Theme IV-9: Urban
Air Quality and Human Exposure – Dr. D. Kotzias (JRC-EI, European
Commission)
Presentation abstracts
will appear here as soon as possible.
The session aims at
identifying the needs for an efficient air quality assessment
and management taking total human exposure (indoor/outdoor) into
account. In order to do this all essential methodologies needed
for an exposure based urban air quality assessment should be considered,
from sources identification, micro-environmental and personal
monitoring to the development of modelling tools for the analysis
of data, the assessment of abatement scenarios and the development
of measures. Important points to be addressed will be:
- Development of criteria
for air quality standards taking total human exposure into account
- Identification of
urban areas exposed to high pollutant concentrations
- Evaluation of future
air pollution through short and medium term forecasts
- Development of emission
reduction scenarios
- Harmonisation and
validation of urban air quality models
Specific studies on
urban and con-urban air quality monitoring will provide information
on the current status of air pollution in Europe and elsewhere
and will show practical aspects and results of an efficient air
quality management due to the implementation of air quality policies.
Within this frame urban planning is one of the key factors. In
the past many problems associated with air pollution in cities
have been solved and/or avoided due to the improvements in infra-structure,
when eliminating and/or reducing urban traffic and the creation
of limited traffic zones. Another question remains still open,
on how urban green influences air quality and whether emissions
from urban trees influence photochemical oxidant formation under
particular weather conditions in cities.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Think Local, Act Global:
The need for Integrated Modelling for Urban Pollution
Andreas N. Skouloudis, Joint Research Centre European Commission,
Ispra, Italy
EXPOLIS Database for
Multi Centre Air Pollution Exposure Data Collection and Management
Otto Hänninen, KTL- Air Hygiene, Kuopio, Finland, Erik Lebret,
RIVM, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Matti Jantunen, EC/JRC, ISPRA
A Way Forward to Harmonized
Air Quality Data
A. Borowiak, F. Lagler, M. Gerboles, E de Saeger, EC JRC, ISPRA
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