Vehicular air pollution and asthma: implications for education for health and environmental sustainability

Kopnina, Helen (2017) Vehicular air pollution and asthma: implications for education for health and environmental sustainability. Local Environment, 22 (1). pp. 38-48. ISSN 1354-9839

[img]
Preview
Text
Vehicular air pollution and asthma implications for education for health and environmental sustainability.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0.

Download (1MB) | Preview
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2016.1154519

Abstract

Studies show a direct relationship between occurrence of asthma and increases of particulate matter in the air. Private transportation is found to be a significant contributor to this problem. The objective of this article is to explore this link between air pollution, asthma and vehicular dependency in order to provide recommendations for health and transport policy. This article focuses on the survey of literature on the relationship between vehicular air pollution and asthma; combining it with the literature on vehicular dependency or ‘car culture’ in the global context and in The Netherlands. This article exposes the imbalance of power between patient groups and polluting industries, and the government failure to protect the weaker party can be explained by corporate pressures. It will be argued that since air pollution is tied to the corporate support for the car industry and vested interests in promoting a ‘car culture’, strategic policy that claims to be concerned with public health should explicitly link the present pattern of mobility to public health. This article concludes with a recommendation for raising environmental health awareness by explicitly linking vehicular dependency to respiratory health through a combination of holistic and citizenship education.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Air pollution; asthma; environmental health; holistic education; vehicular dependency
Subjects: B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine
F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences
L900 Others in Social studies
X900 Others in Education
Department: Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 22 Sep 2021 13:50
Last Modified: 22 Sep 2021 14:00
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/47328

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics