Urban growth and air quality in Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia

EnvironmentAsia

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-128

  Ling, Oliver Hoon Leh ^a   Ting, K H ^a   Shaharuddin, A ^b   Kadaruddin, A ^b   Yaakob, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ambient air quality; City; Correlation; Urban landuse; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOREST FIRE; LAND USE; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

KUALA LUMPUR [KUALA LUMPUR (ADS)]; KUALA LUMPUR [WEST MALAYSIA]; MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 77956975559     PISSN: 19061714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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