Tackling air pollution in China-What do we learn from the great smog of 1950s in London

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5322-5338

  Zhang, Dongyong ^a,b   Liu, Junjuan ^a   Li, Bingjun ^a  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Lesson; London; Smog

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; HISTORICAL RECORD; LITERATURE REVIEW; POLLUTION CONTROL; SMOG; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84906281088     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6085322     Document Type: Article

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