1. Air pollution may be damaging children's brains - before they are even born
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Aside causing respiratory and cardiovascular damage, air pollution has also an impact on the brains and nervous systems of unborn children whose mothers suffer high levels of exposure.
2. Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
3. Aircraft pollution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1992
   
4. Blueprint for a Green Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
5. Canadian Environmental Network
   Resource Type: Website
   The Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) facilitates networking between environmental organizations and others who share its mandate - To Protect The Earth And Promote Ecologically Sound Ways Of Life.
6. The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
   How You Can Help
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
   A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
8. Cancer is Capitalist Violence
   Anthropology Against Oncology
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
9. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
10. Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
11. Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
12. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
13. Gassing the American People
    Fracking Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
14. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
15. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
16. Is The Air Fit to Breathe?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet describes some of the more common air-pollution health dangers at the work site and outlines some workers rights guaranteed by law.
17. Poisoned Skies
    Who'll Stop Acid Rain?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
18. Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
19. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
    Resource Type: Book
    
20. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
21. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1998
    The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
22. Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
23. Under the Dome
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
24. The Volkswagen Scandal Wasn't Exposed by Regulators, but by Two Engineers Working at a Small Non-Profit Lab
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    German automaker Volkswagen was recently exposed for perpetrating a massive deception by installing a small device on as many as 11 million diesel-powered vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests.
25. VW, GM and Takata: the Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Making the case that executives at VW, Takata and General Motors should be jailed for corporate crime. The crimes committed by the corporations they head are extremely serious, and have caused and will cause hundreds of deaths. Why are the perpetrators allowed to get off simply by writing a cheque to cover the fine, instead of going to jail the way other criminals do?

Experts on Luftverschmutzung in the Sources Directory

1. International Maritime Organization
2. World Bank
3. World Health Organization
4. World Meterological Organization