Exposure Risks From Pollutants in Domestic Environments: The Urban Exposure Project

Authors

  • I. Colbeck University of Essex, Colchester, United Kindom
  • T. Bholer Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
  • D.M. Broday Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • G. Coulson University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
  • I. Floisand Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
  • J. Fudala Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland
  • W. Hollander Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung, Hannover, Germany
  • C. Housiadas Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece
  • M. Lazaridis Technical University of Crete, Greece
  • H. Laupsa Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
  • J. Smolik Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Keywords:

Exposure, indoor air, particulate matter

Abstract

The URBAN EXPOSURE project is an EU funded project to produce a state-of-the-art, user-friendly management decision software tool for administrators to help them quantify and deal with the real health risks associated with pollution in urban environments. The project aims to quantify the relationship between outdoor pollution measurements and actual exposure suffered by people in urban indoor environments. The resulting product has been extensively field tested in two European urban centres. Results are presented which highlight the impact of the different microenvironments and activities on exposure.

Author Biographies

D.M. Broday, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Division of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering

M. Lazaridis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Dept. of Environmental Engineering

J. Smolik, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals

Published

2007-01-17

Issue

Vol. 12(47) (2005)

Section

MATERIALS PROCESSING