Leadership and air quality index at Latin American metropolises

DOI

10.2991/icsbal-19.2019.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sustainable development, air quality, leadership, Latin America

Abstract

Around the world, quality of life has been important thing for governments, there are several quality indices they are add to the main quality index, someone countries measure the air quality and they are observing them relation with the environmental health indicators (EHIs), there are several articles about explain the health affectation for air quality, but the policy has differences between developer countries and pored countries underdeveloped, the low air quality could be caused respiratory infections and increase the infant mortality. This paper describes the city leadership for some countries in Latin America which have developed policies and implement instruments to sensing the air quality index continuously, this is not only enough, each country has adopted mitigation programs to improve air quality. There are some indicator to measure the air quality indices, in this review one can find a two principal indicators and ten cities to compare in two variables, likewise they are taken as overall PM10 and PM2.5, each indicator is related with the size of particle there are into the pollution, the paper derives from the research about works related with the air pollution, health indices, and air quality influence, however the governments in Latin American cities have absence to guarantee higher air quality standards for them citizens, finally the air quality city leadership is find to case for Latin America capital cities.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Darwin Rodríguez
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TI  - Leadership and air quality index at Latin American metropolises
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social, Business, and Academic Leadership (ICSBAL 2019)
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