Abstract
Air pollution is a major public concern and is estimated to cause up to 4.2 million deaths (WHO) every year around the world. The major sources of air pollution are automobile exhaust and industrial emission. Everyone is affected by dirty air, but the adverse impacts of air pollution fall most heavily upon vulnerable populations, such as women, children, and people living in poverty. The prime air pollutants have been broadly classified as both outdoor and indoor. The outdoor pollutants include the remains of fossil fuel carbon and metallic particles, as well as toxic gases in the atmosphere from automobile exhaust and industrial emission. The major sources of indoor air pollution (IAP) include cooking and heating with solid fuels such as dung, wood, agricultural residues, and coal; this form of pollution is possibly the largest traditional burden on a global scale. I will discuss the present situation of air pollution, in developing countries and the various ways to prevent and manage this threat to people’s health and well-being, as well as the fulfilment of sustainable development.
Speaker’s biography
PhD in Chemistry, 1974 Agra University, AgraThesis “Chemical aspects of the toxicity of Mineral Fibres"-July 1969– Aug 2003 Scientist and retired Deputy Director AreaLeader Inhalation Toxicology & Health Risk Assessment & HeadFibre Toxicology Division Industrial Toxicology Research Centre,(Government of India) Lucknow, India.-October 2004 - December 2009 Dean Research & Development,Integral University, Lucknow-Present Posítions:European Union’s Expert Advisor on SCIENCE-BASED RISKGOVERNANCE OF NANO-TECHNOLOGYDean Research (Sc. & Tech.) Amity University, Lucknow CampusDistinguished Professor & Principal Advisor to Founder President(International Alliances) Amity University Noida IndiaHonorary Research Professor Louisiana University Lafayette USAVisiting Professor University of Rostock Germany(1998 till date)-Visiting Scientist at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; Centre d'Hemotyplology Tolouse, France; Creteil University Paris, France;US EPA; Food and Drug Administration USA-Honorary Doctorate from Rostock University Germany in 2009
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Universität Rostock
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