Nowadays attention to environmental pollution induced a very hard debate in the scientific community in order to face issues related with this problem. In particular the need for a significant level of health care both in working areas and in civil settings suggested to develop several methods capable to evaluate the quality of ambient. Up to now, all approaches are conceived considering well defined ambits of application. In this paper we will discuss the possibility of developing a general index of environmental quality which deals with different kind of polluting agents. The effective result is represented by a quantity which measures a weighted combination of sub-indexes related to each polluting agent and described by means of a normalized opportune mathematical function. Our idea is to furnish a healthy parameter which describes in a synthetic matter the state of ambient under investigation, suggesting what are areas where it is necessary to intervene in order to ameliorate environmental conditions.
Development of an Environmental Quality Index Related to Polluting Agents
QUARTIERI, Joseph;TROISI A;GUARNACCIA, CLAUDIO;D'AMBROSIO, SALVATORE;IANNONE, GERARDO
2009-01-01
Abstract
Nowadays attention to environmental pollution induced a very hard debate in the scientific community in order to face issues related with this problem. In particular the need for a significant level of health care both in working areas and in civil settings suggested to develop several methods capable to evaluate the quality of ambient. Up to now, all approaches are conceived considering well defined ambits of application. In this paper we will discuss the possibility of developing a general index of environmental quality which deals with different kind of polluting agents. The effective result is represented by a quantity which measures a weighted combination of sub-indexes related to each polluting agent and described by means of a normalized opportune mathematical function. Our idea is to furnish a healthy parameter which describes in a synthetic matter the state of ambient under investigation, suggesting what are areas where it is necessary to intervene in order to ameliorate environmental conditions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
