The association between greenness and traffic-related air pollution at schools

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 523, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-63

  Dadvand, Payam ^a,b,c   Rivas, Ioar ^a,b,c,d   Basagaña, Xavier ^a,b,c   Alvarez Pedrerol, Mar ^a,b,c   Su, Jason ^e   De Castro Pascual, Montserrat ^a,b,c   Amato, Fulvio ^d   Jerret, Michael ^e   Querol, Xavier ^d   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Child health; Green space; NDVI; School; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; VEGETATION;

GREEN SPACES; MITIGATING EFFECTS; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SCHOOL; TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

AIR POLLUTION;

BLACK CARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHILD HEALTH; GREENSPACE; NDVI; POLLUTION EFFECT; STUDENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXHAUST GAS; GREENNESS; HUMAN; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN; TRAFFIC RELATED AIR POLLUTANT; TREE; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; SCHOOLS; SPAIN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84926376526     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.103     Document Type: Article

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