Māris kļaviņŠ, azamat azizov, JĀnis zaļoksnis environment, pollution, development: the case of uzbekistan

Part of inhabitants that lives in cities, where monitoring is done
Part of inhabitants that lives in cities, without air quality monitoring
28.2
32.5
32.6
32.6
41.3
0
20
40
60
80 100%
Nitrogen oxides
Ozone
Phenol
Ammonia
Dust
33%
31%
22%
7%
3%
3% 1%
Power industry
Oil and gas industry
Metalurgy
Municipal economy
Chemical industry
Building industry
Other
Figure 7.8. 
Contribution 
of industrial production 
in air pollution 
Figure 7.9. 
Urban 
population in 
Uzbekistan living 
in areas where 
concentrations 
of air pollutants 
regularly exceed of 
maximally permissible 
concentrations

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7. AIR POLLUTION
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There are several groups of people that are potentially more 
sensitive to air pollution than others. Particularly sensitive to air 
pollution are infants and young children as well as older people and 
those suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Healthy people are less 
susceptible than those who already suffer from respiratory diseases 
(asthma, chronic bronchitis).
Today, the industry and households generally use a large number 
of harmful substances, which in the work process can spread either 
in the surrounding area or atmo spheric air in the form of gas, 
vapour, aerosol or dust. In order to protect the workforce and the 
population, there is a whole range of criteria (concentration limits), 
restricting the maximum permissible concentrations of various 
harmful substances in the air (Table 7.1).
Table 7.1.