Much science, policy, and practice in the air-pollution community revolves around human health. However, if we look to University of Waterloo Environment and Resource Studies Professor Robert Gibson’s principles of sustainable development, we can see that focusing almost exclusively on health leaves many dimensions of sustainable development under serviced.

Our latest paper, published online on Oct. 3, 2012 in the Science of the Total Environment, discusses how new technologies are making air pollution monitoring a more effective tool in assessing the sustainability of development. Continue reading →