Spatial identification of environmental health hazards potentially associated with adverse birth outcomes

Svechkina, Alina; Portnov, Boris A.

doi:10.1007/s11356-018-3800-6

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“…3 Environmental Protection Inspection Programme, aiming at regulating ecological environmental protection inspections and promoting the construction of ecological civilization, please refer to column (3) in Table 7 for details. 4 Automatic air quality monitoring stations, which aim to analyze the various pollutants present in the atmosphere in a fixed and continuous manner, as detailed in column (4) of Table 7. The results indicate that after removing the samples within the pilot areas of the above policies in turn, the grassroots environmental constraints continue to exert a significant dampening effect on regional SO 2 concentrations, indicating the robustness of the core findings of this paper.…”

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“…Being the world's most industrialized nation, China faces severe air pollution [1]. Globally, air pollution poses a grave governance challenge and represents a severe threat to both socioeconomics and public health [2][3][4]. In recent years, air pollution has been controlled to some extent due to a series of nationwide environmental regulatory policies introduced one after another by the Chinese central government, which has attached great importance to air pollution [5].…”

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Can Grassroots Governments’ Environmental Attention Effectively Improve Air Pollution? Empirical Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing Technology

Lin,

Shi,

2023

Sustainability

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Air pollution poses a global challenge, prompting governments worldwide to implement environmental policies aimed at its mitigation. However, grassroots management is key to the effectiveness of pollution management. Traditional air monitoring, ranging from a specific point to broader areas, has inherent limitations. In contrast, satellite remote sensing technology offers extensive spatial and temporal coverage, enabling real-time monitoring of data transmission. Can the amalgamation of grassroots governance and satellite remote sensing technology significantly enhance air pollution control? This article leverages satellite remote sensing data and county-level economic and social data from China spanning the period 2008 to 2019 to empirically explore the impact and mechanism of government environmental constraints on air pollution in grassroots areas. The following results were found: (1) Grassroots government environmental constraints exert a significant inhibitory effect on air pollution, and this conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests. (2) Mechanism tests reveal that grassroots government environmental constraints reduce county-level air pollution by fostering urbanization, enhancing industrial structures, and promoting innovation in green technologies. (3) There exists heterogeneity in the inhibitory effect of grassroots environmental constraints on air pollution, with a more pronounced impact in areas focusing on environmental protection, facing no economic constraints, large-scale, and located in central and western regions. The green governance awareness of a higher-level government shows an interaction effect on the reduction in environmental constraints at the grassroots government level, collectively contributing to the decrease in regional air pollution. The conclusion of this article underscores the vital role of satellite remote sensing technology in pollution control and provides insights into the direction of environmental regulation.

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Can Grassroots Governments’ Environmental Attention Effectively Improve Air Pollution? Empirical Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing Technology

Lin,

Shi,

2023

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Marine Air Pollution in Israel: Extent, Proposed Mitigation Targets, Benefits and Feasibility

Razy-Yanuv

Barak²,

Noam³

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Marine air pollution is a major contributor to seaports and coastal air pollution, and Israel has yet to seriously confront this issue. This study aimed to update previous marine air pollution estimations in Israel’s two major ports: Haifa and Ashdod. The objectives were to examine technical and regulatory measures to address the problem, to propose mitigation targets and to estimate their potential benefits. Based on a model of emission-calculations that relies on an updated ship-inventory data as well as real-time ships’ location and movement tools, the combined marine NOx, SOx and PM2.5 annual emissions in these ports were found to be 18,415, 15,128 and 1453 tons, respectively. These values are considerably higher than previous estimates, are comparable to the constant pollution emitted at ground level from a 1000-MW coal powered city power plant and are 3–20 times higher than the industrial and land transportation sectors in these cities. Relatively high nickel concentration in PM was found in Israel only relatively adjacent to the Haifa and Ashdod ports. Since high nickel concentration in PM is today mainly associated with marine air pollution, this finding supports the hypothesis that marine air pollution worsens the air quality in these cities. SOx and PM2.5 emissions can be reduced by 78% and 27%, respectively, if Israel enforces the revised International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) Annex VI regulations in its territorial waters. While the latter step can achieve external benefits of NIS 518.4 million/year (EUR 132 million/year), additional mitigation actions and local regulations are suggested, focusing on NOx emissions but also on other pollutant criteria. Such actions can achieve further benefits of NIS 274.3 million/year (EUR 70 million/year). Achieving the suggested targets is challenging yet attainable, and their potential benefits will probably outweigh their costs.

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Spatial identification of environmental health hazards potentially associated with adverse birth outcomes

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Can Grassroots Governments’ Environmental Attention Effectively Improve Air Pollution? Empirical Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing Technology

Can Grassroots Governments’ Environmental Attention Effectively Improve Air Pollution? Empirical Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing Technology

Marine Air Pollution in Israel: Extent, Proposed Mitigation Targets, Benefits and Feasibility

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