Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-151-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-151-2024
Research article
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17 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 17 Jul 2024

Air pollution walk as an impact education tool for air quality sensitization: a pilot from an Indian megacity

Debabrata Bej, Sandip Sankar Ghosh, Srijan Haldar, and Arindam Roy

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Walking with an air quality monitoring instrument and an air quality expert could be a better tool for improving citizen awareness. A pilot experiment was conducted where a group of citizens roamed the city of Kolkata, India, with a live air quality monitor and an expert. Feedback from the participants was taken which clearly indicates air pollution walks as an efficient tool for communicating air pollution.
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