Environmental Issues in Aerospace and their Impact on Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

The problem of the impact of aviation on our everyday life can be solved in the context of modeling the environmental response to rising air pollutants due to increasing air traffic. New approaches and advanced technologies can be developed and employed to understand the role of aviation emissions in the climate change response, taking into account existing emission trends. Current research activities focus on the development of effective information tools based on physical/chemical understanding and modeling the qualitative and quantitative assessment of air pollutants and their impact on the environment and public health. It is assumed that these modeling results will be supported by measuring the absorption and radiative properties (single particle albedo and multi-particle scattering from in-situ measurements) of soot/nitric acid/water particles emitted at high and low altitudes, and/or by ground-based measurements at airports.

“Environmental Issues in Aerospace and their Impact on Public Health” is the thematic topic of this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph). It is organised on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of aviation education in Košice, Slovak Republic (1959–2019), in the framework of the United Nations Agenda for the Sustainable Development (2030), which supports the spirit of the Sustainable Development Goals focused on Goal 4 Quality Education and Goal 13 Climate Action.

This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to climate change research, environmental research, aerospace research, the impact of aviation, aviation education, and air traffic management. The keywords listed suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Prof. Dr. Costas Varotsos
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stanislav Szabo
Guest Editors

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