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| Title: | In the air tonight: satellite-based air quality data and inclusive development in Africa: a scoping review of the literature |
| Authors: | Dekker, Marleen Kazimierczuk, Agnieszka Helena Garland, Rebecca Stein-Zweers, Deborah Levelt, Pieternel |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Issue: | 157 |
| Pages: | 67 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ASC working paper |
| City of publisher: | Leiden, The Netherlands |
| Publisher: | African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | air pollution remote sensing inclusive development literature reviews (form) |
| External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3716730 |
| Abstract: | Climate change and inequality are the most pressing societal challenges of our time. Understanding these complex, interrelated and urgent problems requires interdisciplinary scientific collaboration. Air quality (AQ) is closely linked to climate and climate change as many of the drivers of air pollution (i.e. combustion of fossil fuels) are also sources of greenhouse gas emissions. AQ has been identified as the single largest environmental risk to public health and people's wellbeing. There is a robust and growing base of evidence that air pollution - a mixture of particulate matter and gases - negatively affects various dimensions of our health, our environment and socio-economic aspects of our lives. So far, the effects of air pollution are broadly studied in the 'global north'. Much less is known about the status and impact of air pollution in developing countries, particularly on the African continent. |