@article{a93614f6a1f14aff8c050ee6f5c7d90c,
title = "An integrated tool to assess the role of new planting in PM10 capture and the human health benefits: A case study in London",
abstract = "The role of vegetation in mitigating the effects of PM10 pollution has been highlighted as one potential benefit of urban greenspace. An integrated modelling approach is presented which utilises air dispersion (ADMS-Urban) and particulate interception (UFORE) to predict the PM10 concentrations both before and after greenspace establishment, using a 10 × 10 km area of East London Green Grid (ELGG) as a case study. The corresponding health benefits, in terms of premature mortality and respiratory hospital admissions, as a result of the reduced exposure of the local population are also modelled. PM10 capture from the scenario comprising 75% grassland, 20% sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and 5% Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) was estimated to be 90.41 t yr-1, equating to 0.009 t ha-1 yr-1 over the whole study area. The human health modelling estimated that 2 deaths and 2 hospital admissions would be averted per year. ",
keywords = "Air quality, Green grid, Health impacts, Particulate matter, Urban greenspace",
author = "Abhishek Tiwary and Danielle Sinnett and Christopher Peachey and Zaid Chalabi and Sotiris Vardoulakis and Tony Fletcher and Giovanni Leonardi and Chris Grundy and Adisa Azapagic and Hutchings, {Tony R.}",
note = "Funding Information: This study is part of the Pollution in Urban Environment (PUrE) project funded by an EPSRC grant (EP/C532651/1) under the Sustainable Urban Environment (SUE) programme. The authors would like to thank our partners in the PUrE consortium for their support and comments on the manuscript. Any views or opinions presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the United Kingdom Health Protection Agency or Forest Research. We would like to express our gratitude to the British Atmospheric Data Centre for providing the necessary meteorological data and to Peter Freer-Smith for producing the data enabling models of deposition velocity to be calculated. The census data are Crown copyright reproduced with the permission of HMSO. Finally, we would also like to thank the local authorities for the London boroughs and the Greater London Authority for providing the relevant information at different stages of this work. ",
year = "2009",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.005",
language = "English",
volume = "157",
pages = "2645--2653",
journal = "Environmental Pollution",
issn = "0269-7491",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "10",
}
