Adapting to poor air quality
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In this episode, Rebecca Saari explores potential adaptations needed for worsening air quality due to climate change.
In this episode, we cover:
• [00:03] Introduction
• [00:57] Rebecca Saari, an air quality engineer at the University of Waterloo, describes an air quality alert.
• [01:23] Explanation of the hazard of fine particulate matter air pollution.
• [02:18] Description of the study’s modeling approach.
• [03:14] Description of modeling methods.
• [04:05] Explanation of study results and where air quality alerts may rise due to climate change.
• [04:34] Exploration of the social impacts of inequitable distribution of worsening air quality.
• [05:24] Description of strategies for mitigating the health risk of poor air quality.
• [06:27] Discussion of the costs and benefits of increased time spent indoors to mitigate health risk.
• [07:22] Discussion of the role of policy in protecting from air quality hazards.
• [08:13] Explanation of the study’s caveats and limitations.
• [09:30] Potential impacts of the study.
• [10:11] Conclusion
About Our Guest:
Rebecca Saari
Associate Professor
University of Waterloo
View related content here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2215685121
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