Air quality guidelines: Global update 2005, Particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide

Air quality guidelines: Global update 2005, Particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide (World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen). 2006.484-pages. Price: CHF 100.00/US $ 90.00; in developing countries: CHF 70.00/US $ 63.00 ISBN 978 92 890 2192 0

The Global Update 2005 contains the updated guidelines on air quality prepared by a WHO Steering Group. Although developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the guidelines are meant for worldwide use to support actions for an achievable level of air quality, including those in the developing countries.

This is an excellent document which deals with different issues related to air pollution, its effects on health and the guidelines to set the standards of air quality. The specific focus of attention is on air pollutants produced by combustion of fuels such as the particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide. The guidelines are based on a review of the extensive scientific evidence which has now become available. An important point which emerges is the fact that the...