Quantifying human exposure to air pollutants is a challenging task. Ambient concentrations
of air pollutants at potentially harmful levels are ubiquitous in urban areas and subject to …

Over the past decade, numerous studies have shown the multiple benefits of protected
areas, such as the Natura 2000 network, and green infrastructure to the economy and to …

Looking at health and health care in a new way, this book examines health risks and
benefits as encountered'on the move'rather than focusing on the risks and benefits incurred …

Background This study examined whether objective measures of food, physical activity and
built environment exposures, in home and non-home settings, contribute to children's body …

Travel to and from school is a regular part of life for most children. Such movement can also
have important social, economic, and environmental implications, both for individuals and …

The extent of coastline urbanization reduces their resilience to flooding, especially in low-
lying areas. The study site is the coastline of the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy), historically …

The conventional raster‐based least‐cost path technique, in which the connectivity graph is
constructed by treating each raster cell as a node and linking each node to its adjacent …

Ultrafine particulate matter (UFP) air pollution is unevenly distributed across urban
environments. Disparities in routine activity patterns, such as the exposure risk we face at …

Individual exposure to air pollution depends not only upon pollution concentrations in the
surrounding environment, but also on the volume of air inhaled, which is determined by an …

Exposure to ultrafine particulate air pollution (UFP) contributes to adverse health effects in
sensitive population groups such as children. There is a need to explore UFP exposure in …