How can land and urban development make houses healthier?


Autoria(s): Morawska, Lidia
Contribuinte(s)

Wai, T

Sekhar, C

Cheong, D

Data(s)

2003

Resumo

Traditionally, the main focus of the professional community involved with indoor air quality has been indoor pollution sources, preventing or reducing their emissions, as well as lowering the impact of the sources by replacing the polluted indoor air with "fresh" outdoor air. However, urban outdoor air cannot often be considered "fresh", as it contains high concentrations of pollutants emitted from motor vehicles - the main outdoor pollution sources in cities. Evidence from epidemiological studies conducted worldwide demonstrates that outdoor air quality has considerable effects on human health, despite the fact that people spend the majority of their time indoors. This is because pollution from outdoors penetrates indoors and becomes a major constituent of indoor pollution. Urban land and transport development has significant impact on the overall air quality of the urban airshed as well as the pollution concentration in the vicinity of high-density traffic areas. Therefore, an overall improvement in indoor air quality would be achieved by lowering urban airshed pollution, as well as by lowering the impact of the hot spots on indoor air. This paper explores the elements of urban land and vehicle transport developments, their impact on global and local air quality, and how the science of outdoor pollution generation and transport in the air could be utilized in urban development towards lowering indoor air pollution.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/24022/

Publicador

Stallion Press

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/24022/1/c24022.pdf

Morawska, Lidia (2003) How can land and urban development make houses healthier? In Wai, T, Sekhar, C, & Cheong, D (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference Healthy Buildings, Stallion Press, National University of Singapore, pp. 81-97.

Direitos

Copyright 2003 Please consult the author.

Fonte

Faculty of Science and Technology

Palavras-Chave #050206 Environmental Monitoring
Tipo

Conference Paper