期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2020
卷号:117
期号:46
页码:28640-28644
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2007236117
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Urban outdoor air pollution in the developing world, mostly due to particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 µm (PM 2.5 ), has been highlighted in recent years. It leads to millions of premature deaths. Outdoor air pollution has also been viewed mostly as an urban problem. We use satellite-derived demarcations to parse India’s population into urban and nonurban regions, which agrees with the census data. We also use the satellite-derived surface PM 2.5 levels to calculate the health impacts in the urban and nonurban regions. We show that outdoor air pollution is just as severe in nonurban regions as in the urban regions of India, with implications to monitoring, regulations, health, and policy.
关键词:air pollution ; India ; PM 2.5 ; health impacts