CLEAN AIR CURRICULUM AS A BASE FOR CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

CLEAN AIR CURRICULUM AS A BASE FOR CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

Original language description

Although air quality in Europe has improved over the last decade, there are still many places where concentrations of such pollutants as particulate matter (PM) or benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) significantly exceed WHO guidelines and EU norms. Pollution with PM2,5 only was responsible for 436 000 premature deaths in EU-28 countries in 2013. As research shows, air pollution is not only a problem of large urban populations. Air within rural regions is often even more polluted, especially in the heating season. This in particular relates to such pollutants as PM and carcinogenic BaP or dioxins - as they are released when coal, wood or waste is burned in household heating appliances (European Environment Agency, 2018), (Krakowski Alarm Smogowy, 2016). One of the worst air pollution hot spots in Europe covers CEE countries, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania (European Environment Agency, 2018). Localities from these countries top all rankings of air pollution with PMs or benzo[a]pyrene in Europe. The main reason behind high pollution levels in CEE is reliance on solid fuels (coal, wood) for heating. The household sector constitutes the largest single source of PM10 and B[a]P emissions in the countries across the Europe. A large portion of households continues using sold fuels (low quality coal and wood) for space heating, which remain the cheapest source of heat energy. They are often mixed with waste, which significantly aggravates the problem and health effects. The article presents the CleanAir project (www.cleanair-project.eu) which focusing on the raising awareness of rural communities about the problem of air pollution, its reasons, health effects and possible solutions that can be taken by inhabitants in order to mitigate the problem and reduce local air pollution. This objective is achieved by providing training for teachers from rural areas in the topic of air pollution and equipping them with education materials that they can use to teach their pupils and students about the problem.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10510 - Climatic research

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ICERI Proceedings

ISBN

9788409147557

ISSN

2340-1095

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

2261-2266

Publisher name

IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT, LAURI VOLPI 6, VALENICA, BURJASSOT 46100, SPAIN

Place of publication

Španělsko

Event location

Seville, SPAIN

Event date

Nov 11, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000530109202051