Transportation and Air Quality Changes in an Urban Environment

The book examines the influence of road transportation development on pollution concentration and distribution by providing background information on urbanization and ambient air pollution. it examines problems and limitations of monitoring pollution concntration along traffic corridors by setting up of monitoring stations for direct and indirect measurement of microclimatic variable, elemental and gasseous pollutants,comparissons were made between dirrect measurement of air pollutantants and indirect bio-monitoring with Terminalia catappa L leaves and examines the inter-relationship between traffic density, land use and microclimatic changes

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Dr Cornelius Akanni jest wyk adowc na Wydziale Geografii i Planowania Regionalnego Uniwersytetu Olabisi Onabanjo w Nigerii oraz wyk adowc wspó pracuj cym z Uniwersytetem Rolniczym w Abeokucie w Nigerii. Uköczy Uniwersytet w Lagos (B A Hons, M.sc. Geography) oraz Uniwersytet Ibadan w Nigerii (Ph.D.). Jest onaty, ma trójk dzieci.