Air Quality Assessment: Environmental Impacts, Risks and Human Health Hazards
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental health and safety; impact and risk assessment; environmental quality monitoring and sustainable management
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Interests: remote sensing techniques for environmental monitoring; long-range transport of aerosols; pollution; environmental engineering; atmospheric pollution; analytical microscopy; nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy; optical atmosphere; spectroscopy and lasers; physics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air quality remains a top priority, as monitoring, characterisation, and assessment are challenging to perform accurately with little to no uncertainty. Modern methods employ AI tools for modelling, simulation, and impact and risk evaluation. New air quality assessment instruments are usually integrated with monitoring devices, enabling predictions of impacts and health risks. Meanwhile, traditional monitoring networks and modelling techniques have significantly advanced. Recently, there has been a notable boost in remote sensing capabilities (both passive and active) and data integration frameworks, which provide new opportunities for exposure assessment, risk quantification, and decision-making support.
The topics covered by this Special Issue address the assessment of air quality, environmental impacts, human health hazards, and related risks, emphasising the integration of remote sensing (passive and active) with traditional monitoring and modelling. This Special Issue addresses a variety of contributions from literature reviews and case studies to methodological developments and advanced data applications, covering, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Passive remote sensing of atmospheric pollutants and aerosols (satellite AOD/AI/VI, ground-based photometer networks, sun–sky radiometry) and their relation to exposure and risk modelling.
- Active remote sensing techniques (lidar, ceilometres, aerosol backscatter profiling, Raman lidar) for vertical distribution, mixing layer dynamics, and exposure assessment.
- Decision support, mitigation strategies, and policy implications: how remote sensing and integrated monitoring can inform air-quality management, early warning systems, and planning.
- Integrated methodologies for combining remote sensing data and ground measurements in the analysis of ecological and public health risks.
- Human health hazard and risk assessment related to air quality, with novel exposure estimation methods (including remote sensing inputs, personal exposure modelling, epidemiology).
Thus, we invite contributions that explore the assessment of air quality, with a strong focus on environmental impacts, risks, and human health hazards, and on the integration of remote sensing technologies (passive and active). The aim is to bring together interdisciplinary research that spans from instrument/technique development, through exposure and impact assessment, to policy and mitigation strategies.
Dr. Brindusa Sluser
Dr. Marius M. Cazacu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution monitoring
- data fusion and integration
- atmospheric aerosols
- air quality assessment
- pollutants exposure assessment
- environmental risk assessment
- human health hazards
- risk modelling
- environmental impact analysis
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