Air quality during three covid-19 lockdown phases: AQI, PM2. 5 and NO2 assessment in cities with more than 1 million inhabitants

A Benchrif, A Wheida, M Tahri, RM Shubbar… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Implemented quarantine due to the ongoing novel coronavirus (agent of COVID-19) has an
immense impact on human mobility and economic activities as well as on air quality. Since …

The impact of COVID-19 on air quality levels in Portugal: A way to assess traffic contribution

C Gama, H Relvas, M Lopes, A Monteiro - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The pandemic caused by coronavirus COVID-19 is having a worldwide impact that affects
health, the economy and indirectly affects the air pollution in cities. In Portugal, the number …

[HTML][HTML] Nine-year trends of PM sources and oxidative potential in a rural background site in France

LJ Borlaza, S Weber, A Marsal, G Uzu… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Long-term monitoring at sites with relatively low particulate pollution could provide an
opportunity to identify changes in pollutant concentration and potential effects of current air …

Assessing air pollution in European cities to support a citizen centered approach to air quality management

V Rodrigues, C Gama, A Ascenso, K Oliveira… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
European cities have made significant progress over the last decades towards clean air.
Despite this progress, several cities are still facing acute air pollution episodes, with various …

Assessment of air quality benefits of vegetation in an urban‐industrial region of India by integrating air monitoring with i‐Tree Eco model

M Vashist, TV Kumar, SK Singh - CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, urban trees have emerged as an effective nature‐based solution to
mitigate increasing air pollutant levels due to urbanization and industrialization. This study …

Tourism and air quality during COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future

A Monteiro, C Eusebio, MJ Carneiro, M Madaleno… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pandemic caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (associated to the disease named
COVID-19) is having a global impact that affects health, the economy and the environment …

Factors influencing the relevance of air quality in the attractiveness of a tourism destination: Differences between nature-based and urban destinations

C Eusébio, MJ Carneiro, V Rodrigues… - Tourism Management …, 2022 - Elsevier
Assessing tourism destination attractiveness is a dynamic procedure influenced by
constantly changing factors. Despite the existence of various studies on destination …

The role of air quality for reaching tourism environmental sustainability: A segmentation approach based on visitors' pro‐environmental behaviors

C Eusébio, V Rodrigues, MJ Carneiro… - … Journal of Tourism …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the growing awareness concerning environmental problems, specifically air
pollution, it is crucial to understand the relationship between perceptions of air quality and …

The impact of COVID-19 confinement measures on the air quality in an urban-industrial area of Portugal

C Gamelas, L Abecasis, N Canha, SM Almeida - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study evaluated the temporal variability of the concentrations of pollutants (namely,
NO2, O3, PM2. 5, PM10 and SO2) in an urban-industrial area of mainland Portugal during …

Respiratory deposition dose of PM2.5 and PM10 during night and day periods at an urban environment

YA Cipoli, L Furst, M Feliciano, C Alves - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2023 - Springer
Inhalation of particulate matter (PM) has been extensively associated with the worsening
and onset of cardiorespiratory diseases, being responsible for millions of deaths annually …