Reading List

This page provides a comprehensive list of references cited throughout the EDIAQI Wiki.

(This list is continuously updated.)

WHO

• World Health Organization. (1987). Air quality guidelines for Europe.

• World Health Organization. (2010). WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: selected pollutants.

• World Health Organization. (2021). WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (PM2. 5 and PM10), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide.

• World Health Organization. (2023, September 26). Household air pollution and health (Fact sheet).

European Union

• Council of the European Union. (1989, November 30). Council Directive 89/654/EEC of 30 November 1989 concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace (first individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC).

• European Parliament & Council. (2008, May 21). Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe. Official Journal of the European Union

• European Parliament & Council. (2024, October 23). Directive (EU) 2024/2881 of 23 October 2024 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast). Official Journal of the European Union

• European Environment Agency. (2020). Air quality in Europe — 2019 report. European Environment Agency

• European Parliament. (2021). European Parliament resolution of 25 March 2021 on the implementation of the Ambient Air Quality Directives: Directive 2004/107/EC and Directive 2008/50/EC.

• European Commission. (2018). Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: A Europe that protects: Clean air for all.

• European Commission. (2021). EU Action Plan: 'Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil'.

• European Commission: Directorate-General for Environment. (2022). Study to support the impact assessment for a revision of the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives: final report. Publications Office of the European Union.

• European Commission. EU clean air policy.

• European Commission: Directorate-General for Environment. EU air quality standards.

Zero Pollution Action Plan (ZPAP)

• European Commission. (2021) Zero Pollution Action Plan.

• European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. (2022). Horizon projects supporting the zero pollution action plan. Publications Office of the European Union.

• European Commission, J.R.C. (2022). Zero Pollution Outlook 2022. Publications Office of the European Union.

Scientific papers

• van den Brekel, L., Lenters, V., Mackenbach, J. D., Hoek, G., Wagtendonk, A., Lakerveld, J., ... & Vaartjes, I. (2024). Ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in air pollution exposure: a cross-sectional analysis of nationwide individual-level data from the Netherlands. The Lancet Planetary Health, 8(1), e18-e29.

• Dimitroulopoulou, S., Dudzińska, M. R., Gunnarsen, L., Hägerhed, L., Maula, H., Singh, R., ... & Haverinen-Shaughnessy, U. (2023). Indoor air quality guidelines from across the world: An appraisal considering energy saving, health, productivity, and comfort. Environment International, 178, 108127.

• Fuller, R., Landrigan, P. J., Balakrishnan, K., Bathan, G., Bose-O'Reilly, S., Brauer, M., ... & Yan, C. (2022). Pollution and health: a progress update. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(6), e535-e547.

• Halios, C. H., Landeg-Cox, C., Lowther, S. D., Middleton, A., Marczylo, T., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2022). Chemicals in European residences–Part I: A review of emissions, concentrations and health effects of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Science of the Total Environment, 839, 156201.

• Hossain, M. P., Zhou, W., Leung, M. Y., & Yuan, H. Y. (2024). Association of air pollution and weather conditions during infection course with COVID-19 case fatality rate in the United Kingdom. Scientific reports, 14(1), 683.

• Jacobson, T. A., Kler, J. S., Hernke, M. T., Braun, R. K., Meyer, K. C., & Funk, W. E. (2019). Direct human health risks of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nature Sustainability, 2(8), 691–701.

• Laurent, É. (2022). Air (ine) quality in the European Union. Current Environmental Health Reports, 9(2), 123-129.

• Sadrizadeh, S., Yao, R., Yuan, F., Awbi, H., Bahnfleth, W., Bi, Y., ... & Li, B. (2022). Indoor air quality and health in schools: A critical review for developing the roadmap for the future school environment. Journal of Building Engineering, 57, 104908.

• Settimo, G., Manigrasso, M., & Avino, P. (2020). Indoor air quality: A focus on the European legislation and state-of-the-art research in Italy. Atmosphere, 11(4), 370.

Books

• Hippocrates. (1923). Airs, waters, places. In Hippocrates (Vol. 1, pp. 65–137). (W. H. S. Jones, Trans.). William Heinemann; Harvard University Press. (Original work published ca. 400 B.C.E.)

• Zhang, Y., Hopke, P. K., & Mandin, C. (Eds.). (2022). Handbook of indoor air quality. Springer Nature.

Other

Popova, D. (2023, October 24). Air equity: Unravelling the pollution puzzle in Sofia’s largest Roma neighborhood. Clean Air Fund.