About this Air Pollution Digest
- Sources for
this Digest
- Specificity of this study
- Current Status
- Digest Publication History
1. Sources selected for this Air pollution
Digest
The material content of the texts on Level
3 is directly sourced from
 "Health
Aspects of Air Pollution with Particulate Matter, Ozone and
Nitrogen Dioxide" (2003), as well as "Answer
to follow-up questions from CAFE (2004)" of the WHO
(World Health Organization) Regional Office for Europe, a
leading scientific report produced by a large international
panel of scientists.
These reports have been published as part
of the WHO project "Systematic Review of Health Aspects
of Air Quality in Europe" that aims to provide the Clean
Air for Europe (CAFE) programme of the European Commission
with a systematic, periodic, scientifically independent review
of the health aspects of the air quality in Europe.
The texts in Levels 1 & 2 are either summaries
written by the GreenFacts
editorial team in collaboration with Prof Jacques Kummer or
excerpts of the WHO reference document.
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2. Specificity this Air pollution Digest
This study covers three different air pollutants
as well as some overarching issues. Information can be read
selectively on one pollutant or on all of them. Navigating
from one pollutant to another is facilitated by buttons:
Moreover, the original source documents were
"presented in short in the form of short answers to concrete
policy relevant questions", each WHO answer being followed
by a rationale. This structure was largely taken over in the
GreenFacts Digest with Level 2 presenting mainly the WHO's
answers and Level 3 presenting both the WHO's answers and
rationales.
3. Current Status
Approved for publication
by the GreenFacts
Scientific Board.
4. Air Pollution Digest Publication History
The GreenFacts
publication process is designed to ensure as high a degree
of objectivity as possible.
First draft
The first draft of this Digest was produced
in late 2004 on the basis of a canvas prepared by the GreenFacts
Editorial Team.
Second draft
The second draft of this Digest was produced
in early 2005 after review by Prof. Jacques Kummer and Prof.
Claude Lambré.
Preliminary and Peer review
The final draft of this Digest was produced
in August 2005 after pre-review by experts from an environmental
organization (see our  pre
review form) and peer review by 3 independent scientists
selected by the GreenFacts Scientific
Board (see our peer
review form). Final corrections were added under the supervision
of the GreenFacts Scientific Board in August 2005.
Publication
Final publication was authorized by the President
of the GreenFacts Scientific Board the 31 August 2005.
Updates or subsequent post-publication revisions
No update or revision at present.
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