Answer To: ENEG20003 – Sustainability Studio 1-Written assessment Learning outcomes 1 and 2 assessed Submission...
Amar answered on Apr 02 2021
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Running Header: ENEG20003 – Written assessment: Air Pollution
ENEG20003 – Written Assessment: Air Pollution
Table of Contents
1. Issue Identification & Title 3
2. Introduction 3
3. Stakeholders Analysis 4
4. Discussion of the Issue Challenges 5
5. Issue Mitigation 6
6. Conclusion 7
References 8
Issue Identification & Title
The sustainability issue that will be discussed and assesses in this report concerns air pollution.
Introduction
Air pollution, in essence, represents introduction of particulates, chemicals, or else biological materials into atmosphere which shall lead discomforts, diseases, and / or death in humans, cause damages to other living organisms like plants and animals, or else damage natural environments, built environments and overall ecosystem. Any substance found in air which can cause adverse impacts on humans as well as the overall environment can be referred to be air pollutants. These pollutants could be in forms of gases, liquid droplets, and also solid particles. Further additionally, these could either be man-made or else natural (Seinfeld and Pandis 2016; Heck et al. 2016; Tiwary and Williams 2018).
Pollutants could be classified in being primary or else secondary. Often, primary pollutants shall be produced in a direct manner by way of specific process, like that of ash produced from volcanic eruptions, emissions of carbon monoxide gases from motor vehicles using fossil fuel or else sulphur dioxide which gets released as exhaust from industrial operations. In contrast, secondary pollutants shall not be emitted in a direct manner. Instead, these shall be formed in air while the primary pollutants interact and react. One of the key examples with respect to secondary pollutant concerns the ground level ozone, that is, one amongst the various secondary pollutants which essentially make up the photochemical smog. Some of the pollutants could be primary as well as secondary, meaning, they can both be emitted directly as well as produced by interaction / reaction of other various primary pollutants (Seinfeld and Pandis 2016; Heck et al. 2016; Tiwary and Williams 2018).
In summary, air pollution could happen by way of both human as well as natural actions. The natural events which cause air pollution include volcanic eruptions, forest fires, pollen dispersals, wind erosion, natural radioactivity and evaporation of any organic compounds. The human action events primarily relate to the use of fossil fuels for transportation and industrial purposes, pollutants as exhaust from factories, power plants, waste incinerators, etc., and various pollutants resulting from agricultural / forestry activities.
Stakeholders Analysis
On the basis of the background provided for air pollution, it can be noted that the same happens all across the globe with direct and indirect involvement from all people residing in planet earth in terms of being source for air pollution as well as mitigating agents of the pollution. In this context, at a broad...