Particle (Soot) Pollution in Port Harcourt Rivers State, Nigeria—Double Air Pollution Burden? Understanding and Tackling Potential Environmental Public Health Impacts

Particle (Soot) Pollution in Port Harcourt Rivers State, Nigeria—Double Air Pollution Burden? Understanding and Tackling Potential Environmental Public Health Impacts

Residents of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, and its environs have since the last quarter of 2016 been experiencing adverse environmental impacts of particle (soot) pollution. This “double air pollution burden”—the unresolved prevailing widespread air pollution and the “added” emergence of p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Okhumode H. Yakubu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-12-01
Series:Environments
Subjects:
air pollution
criteria air pollutants
double air pollution burden
environmental impact assessment (EIA)
environmental management system (EMS) environmental monitoring
environmental policy
epidemiological studies
morbidity
mortality
particulate matter (PM)
PM2.5
PM10
particle pollution
soot
toxicological studies
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/5/1/2

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