Comparing the impact of fine particulate matter emissions from industrial facilities and transport on the real age of a local community

Geelen, L.; Huijbregts, Mark A. J.; Jans, Henk W.A.; Ragas, A.M.J.; Hollander, Henri A. den; Aben, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.02.046

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“…We showed that the risk of industrial air pollution is perceived to be higher in our study area than the risk of traffic-related air pollution. This is in line with previous risk perception studies in this region (Nijdam and Jans 2006;Van Riet and Geelen 2009), but in contrast with an in-depth risk assessment study that showed that the highways contribute more to the local air pollution and associated health risks than industrial sources (Geelen et al 2013).Similar results were found in risk perception studies in Canada (Elliott et al 1999), and the United Kingdom (Howel et al 2002). Elliott et al (1999) showed that air pollution is a major concern for residents in North Hamilton, Canada.…”

Section: Industry Versus Trafficsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Furthermore, an in-depth study on local air pollution sources showed that the highways contribute more to the local air pollution and associated health risks than industrial sources (Geelen et al 2013). In spite of these findings, an environmental risk perception survey in 2006 showed that the inhabitants of Moerdijk and Klundert were more worried-than the rest of the municipality-about the environmental quality in general, and more specific about air quality and living nearby the local (petro)chemical industry (Nijdam and Jans 2006;Van Riet and Geelen 2009).…”

Section: Local Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Air Pollution from Industry and Traffic: Perceived Risk and Affect in the Moerdijk Region, The Netherlands

Geelen

Souren

Jans

et al. 2013

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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The aim of the present study was to compare the perceived risks of air pollution from industry and traffic in the Moerdijk region in The Netherlands, and to identify the demographic and psychometric variables that are associated with these perceived risks. We sent out a questionnaire and risk perceptions were explored using multiple regression models. The results showed that the perceived risks of industrial air pollution were higher than for those of traffic-related air pollution. The perceived risk of industrial air pollution was associated with other variables than that of traffic. For industry, the psychometric variable affect prevailed. For traffic-related air pollution, the demographic variables age and educational level prevailed, although affect was also apparent. Which source was considered as the major source-traffic or industry-depended on a high risk perception of industrial air pollution, and not on variation in risk perception of traffic-related air pollution. These insights can be used as an impetus for the local risk management process in the Moerdijk region. We recommend that local authorities consider risk perception as one of the targets in local risk management strategies as well.

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Section: Industry Versus Trafficsupporting

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Section: Local Settingmentioning

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Air Pollution from Industry and Traffic: Perceived Risk and Affect in the Moerdijk Region, The Netherlands

Geelen

Souren

Jans

et al. 2013

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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“…On one hand, the studies on industrial air pollution primarily focused on the effect that distance from the pollution source had on people's perceived risk, given the immobile nature of industrial sources (Geelen et al 2013a;Geelen et al 2013b;Howel et al 2003;Lima 2004). On the other hand, research on transportation sources addressed influences of benefits on perceived risk, because transportation brought great convenience to people's life; and the negative effects of traffic exhausts on health (Beirão and Cabral 2007;Ellaway et al 2003).…”

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Risk perception of air pollution: An exploration of self-relevancy

Zhou

Song

Jing

2016

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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Air pollution is a serious environmental issue that has been long recognized. Whereas government policies attempt to reduce air pollution by controlling various pollution sources, research on risk perception of air pollution tends to treat air pollution as a single unified risk and neglects the complication of the polluting sources. Previous research consistently demonstrates that lay people have an inaccurate understanding of air pollution and are unwilling to change their behaviors to decrease pollution. However, these findings can hardly be employed in policy making because researchers and policy makers treat air pollution differently. The aim of the present study is to obtain a nuanced understanding of people's risk perception of air pollution from different sources. Moreover, we propose a new risk dimension, Self-Relevancy, and try to understand people's reluctance to change their behaviors to reduce pollution. Three main findings emerged. First, we demonstrated that people perceived each air pollution source Downloaded by [Athabasca University] at 05:36 28 June 2016 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 2differently. Second, factor analysis of risk characteristics showed that ratings of self-relevancy questions mainly loaded on the same factor, which indicates the robustness of the Self-Relevancy risk dimension. Finally, we found that people's ratings of Self-Relevancy positively predicted their perceived risk for some of the pollution sources. These findings highlight the importance of investigating sub-categories of risks and exploring the risk dimension of Self-Relevancy in future risk perception research to provide detailed and informative data for policy makers.

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Air pollution in perspective: Health risks of air pollution expressed in equivalent numbers of passively smoked cigarettes

Zee

Fischer

Hoek

2016

Environmental Research

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Comparing the impact of fine particulate matter emissions from industrial facilities and transport on the real age of a local community

Cited by 7 publications

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Air Pollution from Industry and Traffic: Perceived Risk and Affect in the Moerdijk Region, The Netherlands

Air Pollution from Industry and Traffic: Perceived Risk and Affect in the Moerdijk Region, The Netherlands

Risk perception of air pollution: An exploration of self-relevancy

Air pollution in perspective: Health risks of air pollution expressed in equivalent numbers of passively smoked cigarettes

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