More than 500 million Chinese urban residents (14% of the global urban population) are imperiled by fine particulate hazard

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	More than 500 million Chinese urban residents (14% of the global urban population) are imperiled by fine particulate hazard
	He, Chunyang; Han, Lijian; Zhang, Robin Q.
刊名	ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
	2016-11
卷号	218 页码:558-562
关键词	Air pollution Environmental sustainability Developing country Population migration
英文摘要	China's urbanization and the subsequent public vulnerability to degenerated environment is important to global public health. Among the environmental problems, fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution has become a serious hazard in rapidly urbanizing China. However, quantitative information remains inadequate. We thus collected PM2.5 concentrations and population census records, to illustrate the spatial patterns and changes in the PM2.5 hazard levels in China, and to quantify public vulnerability to the hazard during 2000-2010, following the air quality standards of World Health Organization. We found that 28% (2.72 million km(2)) of China's territory, including 78% of cities (154 cities) with a population of >1 million, was exposed to PM2.5 hazard in 2010; a 15% increase (1.47 million km(2)) from 2000 to 2010. The hazards potentially impacted the health of 72% of the total population (942 million) in 2010, including 70% of the young (206 million) and 76% of the old (71 million). This was a significant increase from the 42% of total the population (279 million) exposed in 2000. Of the total urban residents, 76% (501 million) were affected in 2010. Along with PM2.5 concentration increase, massive number of rural to urban migration also contributed greatly to China's urban public health vulnerability. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/35627]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	He, Chunyang,Han, Lijian,Zhang, Robin Q.. More than 500 million Chinese urban residents (14% of the global urban population) are imperiled by fine particulate hazard[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,2016,218:558-562.
APA	He, Chunyang,Han, Lijian,&Zhang, Robin Q..(2016).More than 500 million Chinese urban residents (14% of the global urban population) are imperiled by fine particulate hazard.ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,218,558-562.
MLA	He, Chunyang,et al."More than 500 million Chinese urban residents (14% of the global urban population) are imperiled by fine particulate hazard".ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 218(2016):558-562.