For graduate students trying to move beyond a basic understanding of the effects of air pollution on our health and urban environment, a book such as this is greatly needed. The volume of literature on that subject and its level of complexity is huge, and the gulf between it and basic texts is growing rapidly. This book seeks to bridge that gulf by tackling the key issues in the field of air pollution research.

A collection of work by people with expertise in each of the chosen fields, this book succeeds to varying degrees with its aim, with some …