TY - CHAP AU - C.-Y. Cynthia Lin ED - Mohamed K. Khallaf Y1 - 2011-09-26 PY - 2011 T1 - An Assessment of the Effectiveness of California’s Local Air Pollution Controls on Agricultural Sources N2 - This book aims to strengthen the knowledge base dealing with Air Pollution. The book consists of 21 chapters dealing with Air Pollution and its effects in the fields of Health, Environment, Economy and Agricultural Sources. It is divided into four sections. The first one deals with effect of air pollution on health and human body organs. The second section includes the Impact of air pollution on plants and agricultural sources and methods of resistance. The third section includes environmental changes, geographic and climatic conditions due to air pollution. The fourth section includes case studies concerning of the impact of air pollution in the economy and development goals, such as, indoor air pollution in México, indoor air pollution and millennium development goals in Bangladesh, epidemiologic and economic impact of natural gas on indoor air pollution in Colombia and economic growth and air pollution in Iran during development programs. In this book the authors explain the definition of air pollution, the most important pollutants and their different sources and effects on humans and various fields of life. The authors offer different solutions to the problems resulting from air pollution. BT - The Impact of Air Pollution on Health, Economy, Environment and Agricultural Sources SP - Ch. 15 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/17462 DO - 10.5772/17462 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-16 ER -