Environmental Air Pollution Essay

Level of ambient air pollution (AAP) in any local area is influenced by complex interaction among various factors such as local meteorology, climatic conditions, physiographic, wind direction and velocity, urban development and air pollution emitted from anthropogenic sources (Chowdhuri & Gupta, 2017). Large metropolitan cities development including uncontrolled growth in number and types of industries, demolition of old structure, construction of building and vehicular emissions had cause the increase of AAP. High density of human population and anthropogenic activities which lead to release pollutants had caused urban ambient air is more polluted compared to less developed areas. The anthropogenic activity including construction and demolition of building and its operation can affects direct and indirectly the environment and human health (Araujo et al, 2014). Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure that involves many process, equipment, and materials.

Construction-related environmental pollution has been increasing due to the massive number of ongoing urban development. Pollution

Numerous studies found that exposure to particulate matter, both long and short term have been linked to human health problems. A study conducted by Ketchman & Bilec (2013) found that particulate matter have been identified as a health risk to exposed individuals such as construction workers, and individuals living in urban areas in which high density of population and rapid developments. Long term exposure such as for those who working in construction industry, have been linked with health problems su ch as reducing lung function, development of chronic bronchitis and even premature death. Worldwide, it is estimated that air pollution caused by PM2.5 in the atmosphere is responsible for approximately 0.8 million premature deaths and 6.4 million years of life lost annually (Araujo et al,