Sustainability of Air Pollution: Challenges and Mitigation Measures

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Sustainability Studio
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7/26/2018
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Introduction
One of the Earth’s most significant natural resources is its atmosphere that contains air,
without which plants and animals could not survive. For sustaining the plants, animals and
human beings in the environment, pollution should be taken care of. Sustainability can be
defined as the process of maintaining a certain level. The current issue in this paper is the
sustainability of Air pollution. Air pollution is relates to the poor air quality in the
surroundings (Sueyoshi and Yuan, 2015).
Before doing the research on this topic, I considered the sustainability factors which is judged
only in the companies in which the strategies are made to survive the business for the long
term without any problems or hard conditions. However, the concept of sustainability is
applicable to the whole environment including the human and non-human lives in the habitat.
The sustainability is not a rigid or a narrow concept and not confined to a single factor or
thing but reflects on various other issues also. Sustainability is wider in nature and covers
various aspects of surrounding in which protecting the environment the sustainability is not
only found in the business but also seen in environment protection (Janssens-Maenhout et al.,
2015).
According to the research, WHO (World Health Organization) reported that in 2012, 7
million people died due to exposure to air pollution. From this incidence, this will be
considered as the largest single environmental risk (World Health Organization, 2016).
United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in 2014, tried to improve the quality of air
by making some measures. These measures give priority to sustainable development,
identifying that clean air is critical to protecting human health. This measure also helps in the
protection of climate, human health, and ecosystem.

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Issue as a Challenge
Air pollution can be taken as a challenge for the environment. Air pollution caused due to
natural and manmade sources. Human sources include the vehicles, industries, and factories,
residential and commercial areas. It affects the human as well as surroundings. Air pollution
can cause the death from respiratory diseases, chronic fatigue, and other diseases such as
heart disease. The polluted environment also affects the vegetation and reduces the
biodiversity (Liu et al., 2015).
There are many challenges faced at managerial and technical levels. The management
challenges include the lack of integrity, directions, and coordination between the ministries
and organization that are related in reducing the air pollution. There is a lack of participation
of the public in programmes to reduce air pollution. Another challenge that has found is the
sanctioning of the funds required to introduce the programs to lowering the pollution (Dora et
al., 2015).
Technical challenges faced include the use of poor quality fuel in the machines, which creates
harmful gases in the surrounding. Use of old technology is also the reason to have air
pollution in the environment. Other challenges that the authorities are facing the not
providing the use of pollution control technologies in the vehicles (Yigitcanlar, Dur and
Dizdaroglu, 2015).
Mitigation measures
The issue can be mitigated by using a number of means, which would be, employed. This
will help in preventing and reducing the emissions of air pollutants.
 Application of best available control technology, as required by PSD permit
 Make less use of motor vehicles or equipment, which make the air pollution.