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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Pollution characteristics and human health risk assessments of toxic metals and particle pollutants via soil and air using geoinformation in urbanized city of Pakistan.

Khalid Mehmood, Yansong Bao, Roman Abbas, Saifullah, George P Petropoulos, Hamaad Raza Ahmad, Muhammad Mohsin Abrar, Adnan Mustafa, Alwaseela Abdalla, Katia Lasaridi and 1 more

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Khalid MehmoodKey Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME) / Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC) / Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD) / CMA Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
Yansong BaoKey Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME) / Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC) / Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD) / CMA Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China. ysbao@nuist.edu.cn.
Roman AbbasMultan Medical and Dental College, Multan, Pakistan.
SaifullahDepartment of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
George P PetropoulosDepartment of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea, 17671, Athens, Greece.
Hamaad Raza AhmadInstitute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan.
Muhammad Mohsin AbrarNational Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
Adnan MustafaNational Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
Alwaseela AbdallaAgricultural Research Corporation, P.O. Box 126, 11111, Wad Medani, Sudan.
Katia LasaridiDepartment of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea, 17671, Athens, Greece.
Shah FahadHainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresource, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China. shah_fahad80@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7525-0296

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Abstract

Toxic metals and particle pollutants in urbanized cities have significantly increased over the past few decades mainly due to rapid urbanization and unplanned infrastructure. This research aimed at estimating the concentration of toxic metals and particle pollutants and the associated risks to public health across different land-use settings including commercial area (CA), urban area (UA), residential area (RA), and industrial area (IA). A total of 47 samples for both soil and air were collected from different land-use settings of Faisalabad city in Pakistan. Mean concentrations of toxic metals such as Mn, Zn, Pb, Ni, Cr, Co, and Cd in all land-use settings were 92.68, 4.06, 1.34, 0.16, 0.07, 0.03, and 0.02 mg kg

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Environmental PollutantsMetals, HeavySoil PollutantsAdultChildChinaCitiesEnvironmental MonitoringHumansPakistanRisk AssessmentSoilEnvironmental PollutantsMetals, HeavySoilSoil PollutantsAir quality indexCancer riskGeoinformationPakistanPollution load indexToxic metals

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