Urban Air Pollution and Avenue Trees : Benefits, Interactions and Future Pros...

by Abhijit Sarkar

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Urban Air Pollution and Avenue Trees : Benefits, Interactions and Future Prospects, Hardcover by Sarkar, Abhijit; Das, Sujit, ISBN 1685071759, ISBN-13 9781685071752, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Around the world, cities provide plenty of opportunities such as better education, advanced health treatment facilities, better employment, commerce, and trade as compared to rural areas. Therefore, more than half the world's people live and work together in urban communities, and it is projected that by the year 2030, three out of five people will stay in cities. The unrestrained and rapid growth of cities has also brought environmental degradation and causes many serious problems such as worsening of air quality, loss of natural habitat and species diversity, and increased human health risks associated with heat waves, noise and crowding. In most urban areas of developing countries, a variety of harmful air pollutants such as particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are emitted from a variety of sources, mainly the burning of wood, fossil fuels and vehicular emissions, which adversely affects the health of human beings, animals, and other living creatures. In the urban environment, trees provide many economic, social, and environmental benefits to people, such as aesthetic beauty, improvement of property values, erosion prevention, storm water management, noise reduction, mental health development and crime redu

• Publisher: NOVA Science Publishers, Incorporated
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781685071752
• Condition: Fine

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