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Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change

Editat de Hajime Akimoto, Hiroshi Tanimoto
en Limba Engleză Mixed media product – 21 apr 2023
This handbook covers the air quality/air pollution from the viewpoints of causing impacts on human/ecosystem health and climate change. Traditionally, air pollution has been a concern mainly in terms of its impacts on human health, and it is still an immediate public and governmental concern in most Asian countries. However, in recent years so-called extreme weather events, such as stronger tropical cyclones, flooding, drought, and other phenomena, have been manifested causing tremendous losses of human lives and properties. Importantly, climate models tell us that such extreme weather events are actually induced by anthropogenic global warming. It has been pointed out that mitigation or alleviation of such climate change leading to the extreme weather events in the next 30 years can be possible only by reducing air pollutants with positive radiative forcing such as ozone or methane, which are called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). Here, concerns about mitigation of air pollutants from the points of human health and climate change have merged.   This book covers different kinds of air pollutants and radiative forcers and how they can be measured. It also mentions the situation of air pollutants in different continents and their regional impacts to human health, environment and economy as well as their link to extreme weather events. The book presents how the air pollution and climate change can be mitigated and how clean air technologies and international initiatives for co-controlling air pollution and climate change have been developed.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811527616
ISBN-10: 981152761X
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

Part I Air Pollutants and Radiative Forcers (Jun’ichi Kurokawa) I-1 Emissions
        [Air pollutants (NOx, SO2, NH3, CO, VOCs, PAH, BC, OC)]
 [Radiative Forcers (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFC)]
 [Natural emissions (biomass burning, volcanos, natural vegetation, wet lands)]
1.    Historical Global Emissions of Air Pollutants and Radiative Forcers
2.    Recent trends of Emissions of Air Pollutants and Radiative Forcers by Continent and Country
 
I-2 Instrumentation for Measurement of Air Pollutants and Radiative Forcers
3.    Measurement of Gaseous Pollutants (O3, SO2, NO, NO2, CO, VOC, PAH)
4.    Measurement of Gaseous Radiative Forcers (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFC)
5.    Measurement of Aerosols (Ions, OC, BC, inorganic elements)
6.    Measurement of Chemical Species of Organic Aerosols (POA, SOA)
 
Part II Air Pollution and its Impacts (Hiroshi Tanimoto)
II-1 Present Status of Air Quality and Air Pollution in a Global Perspective
   [Air Pollution by PM2.5,O3, NOx/NO3-and SO2/SO42-focusing on Europe, North America and Asia]
7.    Regional and Local Air Pollution in Europe
8.    Regional and Local Air Pollution in North America
9.    Regional and Local Air Pollution in Asia
10. Regional and Local Air Pollution in Southern Hemisphere (Oceania, Latin America, Africa) 
11. Air Pollution in Arctic and Cryosphere                                                                                                                                               
 
II-2 Impacts of Air Pollution on Human Health
               [Respiratory, Cardiovascular Deseases and Carcinogenesis: Premature Deaths and Economic Loss] 12. Ozone/oxidants
13. Particulate Matter/PM2.5
14. PAH
15. SO2, NO2
 
II-3 Impacts on Forest Trees and Agricultural Crops
16. Adverse Effects of Ozone for Forest Trees
17. Adverse Effects of Ozone for Agricultural Crops
 
II-4 Acidification and Eutrophication of Lakes, Rivers and Ecosystem
18. Historical Evidence of Aquatic Acidification in Europe and North America
19. Eutrophication of Aquatic system and Forest and Their Adverse Effects
 
 
Part III Air Quality and Climate Change (Toshihiko Takemura)
III-1 Recent Extreme Weather Events
[Human Loss and Economical Damages]  
20.                Intensified Tropical Cyclones, and Typhoons in Asia 21.                Intensified Hurricanes in North America and Caribbean Countries
22.                Flooding and Draught in Asia
23.                Flooding and Draught in Europe
24.                Flooding and Draught in North America
25.                Anomaly Weather in Other Continents 
26.                Climate change in Arctica
 
III-2 Historical Trends of Mixing Ratios and Radiative Forcing of Radiative Forcers       [CO2, CH4, O3, N2O, BC, and PM]
27.                 Historical Trends of Atmospheric Mixing Ratios of CO2, CH4, and N2O
28.                Historical Trends of Atmospheric Mixing Ratios of O3, BC, and PM  
 
III-3 What are Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) ?
            [CH4, O3, HFC and BC/OC]
[Basic Consideration on the Importance of Co-control of SLCPs and CO2]
29.                Atmospheric Lifetime of Air Pollutants and Radiative Forcers
30.   Relative Importance of CH4, O3, HFC/HCFC, and BC/OC on Radiative Forcing since Industrial Revolution
31.                Effect of SLCP Co-control with CO2for Future Global Warming
 
Part IV Mitigation of Air Pollution and Mid-term Climate Change (Kebin He) IV-1 Energy Conversion and Energy Efficiency
[Past experiences of energy conversion to bring successful mitigation of air pollution] 
32.                Coal, Oil to Natural Gas 33.                Fossil Fuel to Renewable Energy
34.                Increase in Energy Efficiencies
 
IV-2 Clean Air Technologies
[Updated Technologies of Reducing Emissions of Air Pollutants and Radiative Forcers]     
35.                SO2
36.                NOx
37.                VOCs
38.                NH3
39.                CH4
40.                BC/OC
41.                HCFs and HCFCs
 
IV-3 International Initiative for Co-controlling Air Pollution and Climate Change        [Policy-related issues]
42.                Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
43.                Other Initiatives (UN Environment and Others ?)

Notă biografică

Dr. Hajime Akimoto received his B.S. in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1967 in physical chemistry from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. For his postdoctoral research he spent 3 years, 1969–1971, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, and worked on the chemistry of photochemical air pollution. In 1974 he joined the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba, Japan, as the head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Section in the Atmospheric Environment Division, and then served as the chief of the Atmospheric Environment Division and Global Environment Division.
Subsequently, Dr. Akimoto moved to the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo as a professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined the Frontier Research Center for Global Change, now under the Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology as the director of the Atmospheric Composition Research Program. After 2010 he served as director general of the Asia Center for Air Pollution Research in Niigata, Japan. Currently, he is a guest scientist at the National Institute for Environmental Studies.


Caracteristici

Provides basic information on air pollutants and radiative forcers Looks at present-day air pollution/air quality with data from Europe, North America, Asia, and the Southern Hemisphere
Includes the concept of mitigation of air pollutants and mid-term climate change by reducing SLCPs