Criteria Air Pollutants and their Impact on Environmental Health

Dr. Pallavi Saxena is an Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India. She has been awarded DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award at School of Environmental Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has done her Post Doc from Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She has been elected as Chair of South Asia and Middleeast Region of Early Career Scientist Network of iLEAPS community, UK. She is also a co-author and collaborator from India of TOAR International Meeting which focuses on tropospheric ozone and its impact on vegetation. In addition to that, she has been a recipient of various awards like Young Scientist Award from Indian Society of Plant Physiology, DBT BioCaRe Award. Several travel grant awards from WMO, IGAC and NOAA to participate as an expert in Ozone Pollution and Its Impact on Vegetation in TOAR Meeting. Dr.Saurabh Sonwani recently awarded his Doctoral degree from School of Environmental Sciences (SES), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has also completed his M.Phil. degree from SES, JNU, New Delhi. He completed his Master in Science (Environmental Sciences) from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. His area of expertise includes atmospheric chemistry, climate change and environmental health. Dr. Sonwani is an advisory board member at Cambridge Scholars Publishing House, England, the UK in the “Environmental Sciences” section. He is also an active member of the iLEAPS scientific community from South Asian and Middle East Early Career Scientists Network (SAMEECSN). He has both research and teaching experiences in the field of Environmental Sciences. Dr. Sonwani is a recipient of JRF and SRF through the UGC after qualifying test conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and University Grant Commission jointly (CSIR-UGC) in the area of Earth, Atmosphere, Planetary and Ocean Sciences. He qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) in Environmental Sciences organized by UGC, Government of India. He has also awarded by several reputed travel grants from American Geophysical Union (AGU), USA, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal and Corpus fund, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He has written several research papers in reputed National and International Journals indexed in SCOPUS, SCI, Thomson and Reuter and UGC. He has also contributed several book chapters in books published with reputed International Publishers such as Springer, CABI and NOVA. Dr. Sonwani is a lifetime member of several scientific communities such as AOGS, AGU, IASTA and BARC. Till now, he has presented his research work in more than 15 conferences and workshops at the national and international platform.

• Tentative Table of Contents—1. Introduction .- 2. Criteria Air Pollutants: chemistry, sources and sinks.- 3. Primary Criteria Air Pollutants: Environmental Health Effects .- 4. Secondary Criteria Air Pollutants: Environmental Health Effects .-  5. Policy Regulations and future recommendations.