Responses of the Human Body to the Effect from Exposure to Anthropogenic Increase of Ambient Air Pollution

Abstract

In modern urbanized conditions, the human population is experiencing a constant effect of various exogenous factors - social, economic, environmental. That is quite a challenge to determine the leading or dominant influence factor of the current total. At the same time, there is no doubt that environmental impacts on the human population adversely affect the population health. Human habitation in highly polluted ambient air leads to the diseases of respiratory, nervous and circulatory system, and may contribute to the exacerbations of existing diseases and shorten the life. The health of population residing under the continuous long-term negative environmental impact is progressively worsening. This study considers biogas formed in landfill mass of municipal solid waste landfills as an environmental impact. We created ecological pyramids with characteristics dependencies of the anthropogenic factor and human population in the biogas dispersion areas. The study gives a mathematical description of the human body response to effect from exposure to high levels of pollutants in ambient air.

Application of a sustainable location index approach to landfill site selection in Monterrey, Mexico

“…It is projected that for 2030 landfills will emit 959 Mg CO 2 eq −1 ( EPA, 2013 ). The presence of landfill sites has also been correlated with the increase of respiratory, circulatory and nervous system disorders in the surrounding population ( Latushkina et al, 2019 ). One study carried out by Rabl et al (2008) found that the external cost of landfilling (i.e.…”