Urban air pollution in megacities of the world

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 681-686

  Mage, David ^a   Ozolins, Guntis ^b   Peterson, Peter ^b   Webster, Anthony ^c   Orthofer, Rudi ^c   Vandeweerd, Veerle ^c   Gwynne, Michael ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Monitoring and Assess Res Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c United Nations Environment Programme   (Kenya)

Author keywords

GEMS; Urban air pollution potential

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; CITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR QUALITY; FUTURE POTENTIAL POLLUTION; MEGACITY; MONITORING NETWORK; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION INCREASE; URBAN AIR POLLUTION; URBAN POLLUTION;

EID: 0029669402     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00219-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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