Introduction
Air Pollution - a prescient topic which affects us all
Air pollution is estimated to have killed 7 million people worldwide in 2012 (source: WHO) which is 1 in 8 deaths, rising to 9 million in 2015 (source: BBC / The Lancet), including 55,000 in the UK.
The topic of air pollution is a vast canvas which I will try and fill in within the sectors which I have researched and draw some limited conclusions.
I appreciate that many of you will already be familiar with aspects of this topic and may wish to tab straight down to the index and bibliography - I don't want to bore anyone!
This site is intended as an information resource giving both a brief general introduction to air pollution and its measurement, an overview as to how this is done "professionally", and information on how air pollution measurement is now well within reach of low cost "citizen science" approaches.
It also provides information to arm citizens with information and facts to counter official excuses.
Practically speaking, the main initial aim of this site is to provide you with the many web and other links which I have come across during many hours of online research into aspects of this topic, which you will see mainly and inevitably cover my own particular areas of interest. The Bibliography page is a somewhat informal "scrapbook" which I am constantly adding to.
I am providing a compilation of sources, information and techniques which I hope may save you a lot of time web searching. I have arranged things as best I can, mainly web links out, with some explanatory commentary from me to help with your understanding. Because this is a fast moving topic, there will be regular updating which will be too frequent for me to realistically list, however I will endeavour to provide dates so you can assess how "fresh" the information is. Information which is "data heavy", particularly in the Bibliography, may be linked out to other platforms such as Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube, etc, so that this can stay hosted as a free site. The coverage will widen with time, and the progress on additions will usually be included on the Blog page (when I can get it to work, that is!).
The topic of air pollution is a vast canvas which I will try and fill in within the sectors which I have researched and draw some limited conclusions.
I appreciate that many of you will already be familiar with aspects of this topic and may wish to tab straight down to the index and bibliography - I don't want to bore anyone!
This site is intended as an information resource giving both a brief general introduction to air pollution and its measurement, an overview as to how this is done "professionally", and information on how air pollution measurement is now well within reach of low cost "citizen science" approaches.
It also provides information to arm citizens with information and facts to counter official excuses.
Practically speaking, the main initial aim of this site is to provide you with the many web and other links which I have come across during many hours of online research into aspects of this topic, which you will see mainly and inevitably cover my own particular areas of interest. The Bibliography page is a somewhat informal "scrapbook" which I am constantly adding to.
I am providing a compilation of sources, information and techniques which I hope may save you a lot of time web searching. I have arranged things as best I can, mainly web links out, with some explanatory commentary from me to help with your understanding. Because this is a fast moving topic, there will be regular updating which will be too frequent for me to realistically list, however I will endeavour to provide dates so you can assess how "fresh" the information is. Information which is "data heavy", particularly in the Bibliography, may be linked out to other platforms such as Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube, etc, so that this can stay hosted as a free site. The coverage will widen with time, and the progress on additions will usually be included on the Blog page (when I can get it to work, that is!).