Outdoor Air Emissions, Land Use, and Land Cover around Schools on Tribal Lands

Autor: Ken Bailey, Nicolle S. Tulve, Daniel T. Heggem, Nirmalla Barros
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Mediterranean climate
Male
Municipal solid waste
Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis
school
education
air pollution
Air pollution
lcsh:Medicine
Land cover
010501 environmental sciences
medicine.disease_cause
01 natural sciences
Article
American Community Survey
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
children
land cover
030225 pediatrics
parasitic diseases
medicine
Humans
Child
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Air Pollutants
Schools
Land use
Outdoor air quality
lcsh:R
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
land use
Forestry
social sciences
Alaskan Natives
Arid
United States
Geography
Air Pollution
Indoor
Indians
North American
population characteristics
American Indian/Alaska Native
Female
Particulate Matter
geographic locations
Environmental Monitoring
Zdroj: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 1, p 36 (2018)
Volume 16
Issue 1
ISSN: 1660-4601
1661-7827
Popis: Children from tribes are more burdened with adverse respiratory well-being outcomes versus other U.S. children. The objectives of this study were to identify stressors from the built and natural environments for tribal school-aged children. Outdoor air concentrations around U.S. tribal schools were linked to National Emission Inventories
ecoregions and National Land Cover Database
and American Community Survey and school map layers. Nine school sites (seven tribes, five U.S. states) were in three ecoregions: North American Deserts, Northern Forests, and Mediterranean California. Closest emission sources were oil, gas, airport, and manufacturing facilities. Maximum annual outdoor air concentrations were measured for toluene at two schools (29 ppb and 15 ppb, 2011), located four miles from a solid waste landfill and eight miles from paperboard/saw mills. Maximum annual concentrations of metals in particulate matter 10 micrometers and smaller were highest for manganese (68 ng/m3, 2011). Schools were in mainly arid and heavily forested lands. Closest emission sources were predominantly off tribal lands. Measurements were limited (<
30/year). Compared to schools off tribal lands, schools on tribal lands were further away from roadway sources. Future research may examine outdoor air quality around schools with more developed land and indoor air for tribal children&rsquo
s total exposure.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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