Estimation of the health risk from ambient lead pollution in the Greater Cairo (GC) area in Egypt

100th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association 2007, ACE 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 676-690

  Labib, Mounir W ^a   Safar, Zeinab ^b   Khalil, Mohammed H ^c  

^a Environmental Sector Program ESP   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; POLLUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; LEAD POLLUTION; QUALITY STRATEGY; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 44649083754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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