Air quality monitoring and its relation to
potential health impacts in green spaces / parks
and playgrounds in Karachi with the view of air
quality index (AQI)
Accepted 30th
March, 2019
DurdanaRais Hashmi1*, Akhtar Shareef1,
S. Talha Rehan Qadri2, M.Azam3 and Razia Begum1
1Centre for Environmental Studies,
PCSIR Labs Complex, Karachi, Pakistan 2Department of Geology,University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. 3Department of Geography, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences
and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Monitoring of
ambient air quality parameters such as PM10, SO2, CO and NO2 were carried out at
nineteen selected green spaces / parks and playgrounds in residential,
industrial and commercial areas of Karachi city during the year, 2016.
Concentrations of trace gases and particulate matter were found to be higher in
commercial and industrial areas than the residential areas green spaces / parks
and playgrounds. Further, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was also calculated for
these sampling locations. AQI values showed poor and unhealthy pollution level
for commercial and industrial areas, and for residential areas moderate and good
level of AQI values were shown. Similarly, with respect to the health effect due
to ambient air pollution in these areas, it was observed that, the commercial
and industrial areas are comparatively more affected then the residential areas.
Key words:
Green spaces, parks and playgrounds, trace gases, particulate matter, AQI.
This is an open access article
published under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is
properly cited.
Cite this article as:
Hashmi D, Shareef A, Qadri SRT, Azam M, Begum R (2019). Air quality monitoring
and its relation to potential health impacts in green spaces / parks and
playgrounds in Karachi with the view of air quality index (AQI). Acad. J. Environ. Sci.
7(3): 001-008.
