Current environmental issues and challenges

This book's aim is to bring together, in one volume, state-of-the-art information on a number of current environmental issues and challenges. The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects, and air quality modelling fall into the air pollution cate...

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Main Authors: Cao, Giacomo (Author), Orru, Roberto (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer , c2014
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