Eurocourses

Chemical and Environmental Science

By: Helmut KnÃ¶ppel (Editor), Peder Wolkoff (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 1992

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Interest in indoor air quality (IAQ) is growing at public, political and scientific levels. Complaints about poor IAQ, associated with acute symptoms such as mucous irritation, headaches and bad odor occur frequently, particularly in the office environment, where typical patterns of symptoms often occur, leading to the coining of the term `Sick Building Syndrome'.
In the present book, internationally known experts address the following issues:

the dynamics of the indoor environment and strategies for indoor measurement
chemical and microbiological pollution, important species, sources and detection methods
effects of indoor pollution, in particular
sensory irritation, including odor
airway, eye and skin irritation by organic indoor pollutants and their assessment
immune effects, including allergic sensitization
chemical hyper-responsiveness
controlled human reactions to organic pollutants
building investigation: approaches and results
source characterization and control
criteria, norms and techniques in indoor air pollution, and regulatory aspects.

The complex, multifactorial nature of sick building syndrome requires multidisciplinary collaboration from very diverse fields. It is evident that communication between researchers coming from very different areas, all speaking their own language, is a difficult task. This book, presenting as it does the state of the art on sick buildings and how to cure them, is a sound foundation on which to build for the future.

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Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
The Sick Building Syndrome--Overview and Frontiers	p. 1
Chemical and Biological Aspects
The dynamics of the indoor environment and some strategical aspects of indoor measurements	p. 15
Organic indoor pollutants--sources, species, and concentrations	p. 25
Sampling and analysis of organic indoor air pollutants	p. 37
Characterization of organic emissions from indoor sources	p. 49
Sensory characterization of air quality and pollution sources	p. 59
Indoor microbiological pollutants--sources, species, characterisation and evaluation	p. 73
Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Humans
Irritation of the upper airways. Mechanisms and structure--activity relationships	p. 99
Assessment methods and causes of eye irritation in humans in indoor environment	p. 115
Indoor environment and the skin	p. 129
Sensory effects for indoor air quality control	p. 141
Indoor air pollution: immunological interactions	p. 155
Indoor pollution and allergic sensitization	p. 181
Chemical hyper-responsiveness	p. 201
Some studies of human reactions from the emissions of building materials and office machines	p. 231
Human reactions to controlled exposures to VOC's and the "TOTAL-VOC" concept	p. 247
'Sick' Building Epidemiology
Questionnaires in exposure and effect assessment in the field	p. 263
The effects of microbiological pollution in buildings--results of building investigations	p. 275
Building epidemiology--approaches and results (European experience)	p. 287
Building epidemiology and investigatiom--approaches and results (U.S. experience)	p. 295
Mitigation and Control
Regulating indoor air	p. 311
Controlling sources of indoor air pollution	p. 321
Construction and health--criteria, standards and techniques against indoor pollution	p. 343
Healthy buildings--where do we stand, where should we go?	p. 361
Subject index	p. 373
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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