Development and performance evaluation of a GIS-based metric to assess exposure to airborne pollutant emissions from industrial sources.

Thomas CoudonAurélie Marcelle Nicole DanjouElodie FaureDelphine PraudGianluca SeveriFrancesca Romana ManciniPietro SalizzoniBéatrice Fervers

Published in: Environmental health : a global access science source (2019)

Our study demonstrated the ability of the GIS-based metric to reliably characterize long-term environmental dioxin and cadmium exposures as well as the pertinence of using dispersion modelling to construct and calibrate the GIS-based metric.

Keyphrases

heavy metals
air pollution
particulate matter
wastewater treatment
life cycle
risk assessment
human health
sewage sludge