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Majority of world inhabitants are living in cities as well as many inhabitants in Latvia choose to move to cities to look for wellfare. Living in a city with a high density of buildings, cars, and factories, the risk of air pollution increases. Air pollution from the transport, industry, and energy sectors affect the health of the urban population. In cities, air is often contaminated with dust containing various chemical elements, including heavy metals, which, even in low concentrations, can be hazardous to huma...

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...

In the international context of air pollution, the issue of air emissions is treated with various measure in different geographical areas in the world. Due to this necessity, international stakeholders were taking sets of regulations to reduce the effects of air emissions resulted from shipping activities. In Black Sea, because of geopolitical context, such measures have not yet been taken into account. The Black Sea area represents an important pole in the Eastern European trade and is reflected in the transit of...