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The goal of the research is to identify the most significant groups of environmental risks for large cities with heritage sites. Along with relatively rare events threatening heritage sites such as karst, floods and landslides, a group of risks associated with fast-paced processes has been identified, with immediate hazardous effects. These are the risk of hypothermia and frostbite, the risk of heat stress, the risk of immediate toxicological effects caused by heavy traffic, the risk of traffic noise and the risk ...

Nowadays, the problem of ambient air pollution is a challenge in the world. Many government initiatives are being implemented to mitigate the impact of pollution on the environment as well as other aspects of human health and life. A particularly important case is urban areas exposed to the negative impact of industry, for example mining and power plants. In most cases, measurements are carried out pointwise in selected places and periodically with a constant interval of time. There is a lack of dedicated tools th...