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WHO guidelines for indoor air quality : selected pollutants
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Europe, WHO Regional Office for.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--Environmental engineering.
- Indoor air pollution.
- Indoor air quality.
- World Health Organizations.
- Indoor air pollution--Environmental engineering.
- Buildings.
- Local Subjects:
- Buildings--Environmental engineering.
- Indoor air pollution.
- Indoor air quality.
- World Health Organizations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (484 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- WHO guidelines for indoor air quality
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents WHO guidelines for the protection of public health from a number of chemicals commonly present in indoor air. The substances considered - benzene carbon monoxide formaldehyde naphthalene nitrogen dioxide polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (especially benzo[a]pyrene) radon trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene -have indoor sources are known for their hazardousness to health and are often found indoors in concentrations of concern to health. For each substance the chapter covers a general description the sources and pathways of exposure the indoor-outdoor relationship kineti
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Executive summary; Introduction; 1. Benzene; 2. Carbon monoxide; 3. Formaldehyde; 4. Naphthalene; 5. Nitrogen dioxide; 6. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; 7. Radon; 8. Trichloroethylene; 9. Tetrachloroethylene
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789289002141
- 928900214X
- OCLC:
- 869640508
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