Air pollution represents a major environmental health hazard. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is responsible for 300,000 deaths every year in the Americas, and 9 in every 10 people are breathing polluted air at this very moment. The air pollutants that are most harmful to human and environmental health are coarse particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). The concentrations of these pollutants in city air are then determined by the environmental conditions prevailing in each case. As multiple factors are …
La contaminación del aire representa un importante riesgo ambiental para la salud. Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), es responsable de 300.000 muertes al año en el continente americano, y nueve de cada diez personas respiran ahora mismo aire contaminado.
Los contaminantes del aire claves en relación con la salud humana y ambiental son el material particulado grueso (PM10) y el fino (PM2,5), el dióxido de nitrógeno (NO2) y el dióxido de azufre (SO2). Su nivel de concentración en el aire de las ciudades viene determinado por las propias condiciones ambientales de cada ciudad. Por …
The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
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