Urban Air Pollution and Plant Responses

The Critical Connection Between Urban Air Quality and Plants

Ansuman Sahoo, Supriya Tiwari

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443403217
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Urban Air Pollution and Plant Responses: The Critical Connection Between Urban Air Quality and Plants examines how plants are affected by air pollutants in urban environments. The book's chapters cover various plant responses to urban air pollution, including physiological, morphological, and biochemical reactions. Additionally, the book addresses the impact of urban air pollution on agriculture and discusses the role of plants in producing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their effects on air pollution. Sustainable urban planning strategies, innovations in urban greening, and policy and management approaches are explored as means to improve air quality and create healthier urban landscapes.An expert group of contributing authors explores the nature and sources of urban air pollutants, highlighting the challenges posed by poor air quality in urban areas. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the critical connection between urban air quality, air pollution, and plant health, offering insights and solutions for achieving sustainable, cleaner growth in urban areas. - Examines the hazardous issues of urban air pollution, including sources, impacts, and potential control strategies - Reviews the technological aspects of urban air pollution reduction, with an emphasis on green techniques that can assist in the recovery process of the polluted cities - Explores the mechanistic responses of plants toward the various components of urban air pollution, along with the air pollution tolerance index of urban plants

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter One Introduction to urban air pollution: nature and sources of urban air pollutants
• Chapter Two Chlorophyll a fluorescence as a measure of plant responses to air pollutants
• Chapter Three Morpho-anatomical responses of woody species to urban air pollution
• Chapter Four Biochemical and molecular responses of plants to urban air pollution
• Chapter Five Impact of urban air pollution on agriculture
• Chapter Six Plant’s role in producing volatile organic compounds and their impacts on air pollution
• Chapter Seven Evaluating plant health and tolerance to tropospheric ozone pollution
• Chapter Eight Plant bioindicators of urban air quality
• Chapter Nine Urban sustainability: plants help clean up the mess, what helps the plants?
• Chapter Ten Urban greening for sustainable urban planning and air pollution mitigation
• Chapter Eleven Integrating urban heat island mitigation and climate-responsive planning: policy and management strategies for sustainable urban landscapes
• Chapter Twelve Future directions in urban plant science and management
• Index