Title: An agenda for urban air pollution of environmental problems and policies: the Turkish case

Authors: Mustafa Okmen, Bekir Parlak

Addresses: Celal Bayar University, Turkey. ' Uludag University, Turkey

Abstract: Population growth, industrial development and environmental pollution, which threatens natural resources in every country on earth, have made environmental problems one of the most important concerns of man in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Inventories of environmental problems are a working method in several developed and developing countries. In some countries, in fact, in addition to organisations concerned with the problems themselves, there are also offices whose special function is to conduct inventories of the problems. Such a need has also been felt in Turkey, where environmental problems have recently received increased attention - especially air pollution. The principal goal of my report is to analyze the urban air pollution which connected with environmental policies. The problems of urban air pollution and environmental policies in Turkey is also among my objectives.

Keywords: urban air pollution; air quality; environmental policies; Turkey; environmental pollution.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2006.053950

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2006 Vol.8 No.1, pp.96 - 112

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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