Additional Readings

Alcamo, J, et al. 2002. "An integrated assessment of regional air pollution and climate change in Europe: findings of the AIR-CLIM Project." Environmental Science and Policy 5 (4): 257-272. An overview of air pollution in Europe.

Ashley, Steven. 2001. "A Low-Pollution Engine." Scientific American 285(6): 90-95. The homogeneous-charge compression-ignition engine (essentially a sophisticated diesel) may offer the best option for meeting exhaust emission standards.

Berg, T., et al. 2001. "Atmospheric mercury species in the European Arctic: Measurements and modeling." Atmospheric Environment 35(14): 2569-2582. Traces how mercury moves from industrial areas into the arctic.

Boubel, Richard W., et al. 1994. Fundamentals of Air Pollution erd ed. Academic Press. A textbook on air pollution: elements, sources, effects, measurement, monitoring, and meteorology.

Bower, J. 2000. "The Dark Side of Light." Audubon 102(2): 92-97. Light pollution is a threat to wildlife and may affect human health as well.

Brimblecombe, P. 1987. The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times. London: Methuen Pub. Air pollution isn't a new urban problem.

Castro, T. S., et al. 2001. "The influence of aerosols on photochemical smog in Mexico City." Atmospheric Environment 35 (10): 1765-1772. A study of air pollution in the world's biggest city. Also see article in this issue on the regional air quality impact of Mexico City.

Charlson, R. J. 1994. "Sulfate Aerosol and Climatic Change." Scientific American 270(2): 48-55. Sulfur particles scatter light and cool the atmosphere. Reducing air pollution could exacerbate global warming.

Cooper, C. David. 1994. Air Pollution Control: A Design Approach. Waveland Press. An overview of air pollution control engineering intended for professionals.

Dawn Pier, M. B.A. Zeeb & K.J. Reimer. 2002. "Patterns of contamination among vascular plants exposed to local sources of polychlorinated biphenyls in the Canadian Arctic and Subarctic." The Science of the Total Environment 297 (1-3): 215-227. Persistent toxins are carried by long-distance transport to remote areas.

Earth Island. 1997. "The World's Least-Polluting Cars." Earth Island Journal 12(2): 27. Britain's Ethical Consumer magazine rates autos for energy efficiency.

Elsom, Derek. 1996. Smog Alert: Managing Urban Air Quality. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An overview of the problem of urban smog.

Environmental Protection Agency. 1996. "National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone and Particulate Matter." Federal Register 61(114): 29719-29725. Official standards for ambient ozone levels.

Esterbrook, Greg. 1994. "Forget PCB's, Radon, Alar: The World's Greatest Environmental Dangers Are Dung Smoke and Dirty Water." The New York Times Magazine September 11, 1994, pp. 60-63. Still valid after all these years.

Florig, H.K. 1997. "China's Air Pollution Risks." Environmental Science and Technology 31(6): 276-279. A good summary of air quality in China.

Fupgren, Arthur R. 1996. "Night Blindness." The Amicus Journal 17(4): 22-24. Light pollution interferes with astronomy and changes our experience of nature.

Gibbs, W. Wayt. 1995. "The Treaty that Worked-Almost." Scientific American 273(3): 18-19. Analysis of the ozone convention.

Godish, Thad. 1995. Sick Buildings: Definition, Diagnosis, and Mitigation. Island Press. A good discussion of indoor air problems.

Hedin, Lars O and Gene E. Likens. 1996. "Atmospheric Dust and Acid Rain." Scientific American 275(6): 88-92. Alkaline dust is neutralizing atmospheric acids and reducing acidic precipitation.

Jin, Xu, et al. 2002. "Measurement of aerosol chemical, physical and radiative properties in the Yangtze delta region of China." Atmospheric Environment 36(2): 161-173. Air pollution is shown to have a significant impact on visibility, climate, crop production, and human health near Shanghai.

Kaiho, K., et al. 2001. "End-Permian catastrophe by a bolide impact: evidence of a gigantic release of sulfur from the mantle." Geology 29: 815-818 (2001). Suggests that an asteroid impact killed 95 percent of all species at the end of the Permian.

Keith, Lawrence H. and Mary M. Walker. 1995. Handbook of Air Toxics: Sampling, Analysis, and Properties. Lewis Publishers. Detailed information on toxics and the laws that regulate them.

Krupa, Sagar V.1997. Air Pollution, People, and Plants: An Introduction. St. Paul, MN: The American Phytopathological Society. Comprehensive coverage of the causes and effects of air pollution.

Kuik, O. J., et al. 2000. "The economic benefits to agriculture of a reduction of low-level ozone pollution in the Netherlands." European Review of Agricultural Economics.

Lee, Shun Cheng, et al. 2002. "Investigation of indoor air quality at residential homes in Hong Kong case study." Atmospheric Environment 36(2): 225-237. Smoking, cooking, and other activities have negative impacts on indoor air.

Leong, S. T., et al. 2002. "Influence of benzene emission from motorcycles on Bangkok air quality." Atmospheric Environment 36(4): 651-661. Motorcycles and other two-stroke engines contribute a large amount of smog-producing chemicals to urban air in developing country cities.

Longstreth, J. D., et al. 1995. "Effects of Increased Solar Ultraviolet Radiation on Human Health." Ambio 24(3): 153-165. Risks of eye diseases, cancer, and immune dysfunction from increased UV exposure are calculated.

Lovei. M. 1998. Phasing Out Lead from Gasoline:Worldwide Experience and Policy Implications. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Technical Paper 397. Banning leaded gasoline is one of the most effective environmental regulations ever passed.

Lu, J. Y., et al. "Magnification of atmospheric mercury deposition to polar regions in springtime: the link to tropospheric ozone depletion chemistry." Geophysical Research Letters 28: 3219-3222 (2001). Chlorine and bromine compounds in Arctic air deplete atmospheric ozone and also trigger mercury deposition.

May, Jeffrey C. 2001. My House Is Killing Me! : The Home Guide for Families With Allergies and Asthma. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. What to do about indoor air pollution.

Mayerhoff, P., et al. 2002. "Long-term, consistent scenarios of emissions, deposition, and climate change in Europe." Environmental Science and Policy 5 (4): 273-305. An overview of air pollution in Europe.

Nagashima, T., et al. 2002. "Future development of the ozone layer calculated by a general circulation model with fully interactive chemistry." Geophysical Research Letters 29, 31-34 (2002). Japanese researchers say that the Antarctic ozone hole might disappear by 2040.

Okuda, T., et al. 2002. "Source identification of Malaysian atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons nearby forest fires using molecular and isotopic compositions." Atmospheric Environment 36(4): 611-618. Chemical signals can identify the source of smoke from forest fires.

Parson, Edward A. and Owen Greene. 1995. "The Complex chemistry of International Ozone Agreements." Environment 37(2): 16-20. A discussion of the Montreal Protocol.

Rabl, A and N. Eyre. 1999. "Damages and costs of air pollution: An analysis of uncertainties." Environment International 25(1): 29-46. What are the effects of air pollution?

Rawn, Dorothea F.K., et al. 2001. "Historical contamination of Yukon Lake sediments by PCBs and organochlorine pesticides: influence of local sources and watershed characteristics." The Science of the Total Environment 280(1-3): 17-37. Analysis of sediment cores from eight lakes in the Yukon and British Columbia point to long-range air transport as the source of DDT and PCBs in water and fish.

Retallack, Simon. 1997. "God Protect Us from Those Who 'Protect the Skies'." The Ecologist 27(5): 188-191. The Montreal Protocol, initially hailed as a landmark in environmental protection, emerged as an agreement "as ridden with holes as the ozone layer it was designed to protect."

Shinn, E. A. et al. "African dust and the demise of Caribbean coral reefs." Geophysical Research Letters 27, 3029-3032 (2000). Global warming may be damaging Caribbean coral reefs by causing the Sahara desert to expand.

Smith, Gar. 1997. "Oil Spills in the Sky." Earth Island Journal 12(3): 34-35. Jetliners destroy the ozone shield and vent climate-changing contrails.

Smith, K. R. 2000. "National Burden of disease in India from Indoor Air Pollution." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97(24): 13286-13293. A rare study of the disease burden in a developing country.

Social Learning Group. 2001. Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks: Volume 1, A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A look at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect environmental management.

Spengler, John D. et al (eds). 2000. Indoor Air Quality Handbook. McGraw-Hill Co. A professional handbook with lots of useful information.

Thornton, Joe. 2000. Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a new Environmental Strategy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chlorine is used in a wide variety of industrial products but its environmental and health drawbacks are serious.

Warner, Cecil F., et al. 1997. Air Pollution: Its Origin and Control. Addison-Wesley Co. An introduction to the field of air pollution for scientists and engineers.

Wenzel, Tom. 2001. "Reducing emissions from in-use vehicles: an evaluation of the Phoenix inspection and maintenance program using test results and independent emissions measurements." Environmental Science & Policy Vol. 4 (6) (2001) pp. 359 - 376. Remote sensing suggests less benefit from this program than official data.

Wilson, Richard and John Spengler. 1996. Particles in Our Air: Concentrations and Health Effects. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A useful overview of the health effects of aerosols.