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Papers by Alberto Gotti
Science of The Total Environment, 2017
Underground rail reduces health impact attributed to PM x in cities. • Changes in traffic composi... more Underground rail reduces health impact attributed to PM x in cities. • Changes in traffic composition reduce health impacts attributed to NO 2 and C 6 H 6. • Monetary savings from PM 10 and PM 2.5 exposure correspond to 60 and 49 million Euro. • Monetary savings from NO 2 and C 6 H 6 exposure correspond to 41 and 1 million Euro. • 3-4% reduction in mortality and morbidity from green transport policies.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage t... more Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage to structural and non-structural components and the potential release of toxic materials. To mitigate and manage this risk, the ROSSINI project was initiated and its results are described here for what concerns industrial plant worker safety and their risk-based navigation in emergency situations. The project includes a data acquisition system consisting of a data acquisition board and an array of different sensor technologies, which process the seismic event and other meteorological information before passing them as inputs towards the risk identi cation and evaluation (RIE) modules. Here, the risks associated with structural and non-structural damage and health risks associated with the release of harmful substances are estimated and combined to form a navigable risk map. This map is used within a purpose-built riskbased navigation application for the safe egress of workers from an industrial plant. To demonstrate the implementation of this system, two case-study industrial plant layouts consisting of buildings, nonstructural components, liquid storage tanks, piping systems, and chemical storage vessels, were devised. This paper describes the project's implementation in these contexts and illustrates the results via several example scenarios.
Environmental health perspectives, Sep 18, 2022
Research Square (Research Square), Nov 29, 2022
Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage t... more Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage to structural and non-structural components and the potential release of toxic materials. To mitigate and manage this risk, the ROSSINI project was initiated and its results are described here for what concerns industrial plant worker safety and their risk-based navigation in emergency situations. The project includes a data acquisition system consisting of a data acquisition board and an array of different sensor technologies, which process the seismic event and other meteorological information before passing them as inputs towards the risk identi cation and evaluation (RIE) modules. Here, the risks associated with structural and non-structural damage and health risks associated with the release of harmful substances are estimated and combined to form a navigable risk map. This map is used within a purpose-built riskbased navigation application for the safe egress of workers from an industrial plant. To demonstrate the implementation of this system, two case-study industrial plant layouts consisting of buildings, nonstructural components, liquid storage tanks, piping systems, and chemical storage vessels, were devised. This paper describes the project's implementation in these contexts and illustrates the results via several example scenarios.
Advances in Human Services and Public Health, 2019
The main issues that pertain to the health burden from waste management and energy resource use a... more The main issues that pertain to the health burden from waste management and energy resource use are laid out highlighting the aspects that determine actual exposure and the socioeconomic conditions that underlie them. Case studies covering biomass burning, acute and chronic exposure to urban and industrial waste are described. They refer to different areas in Europe and socioeconomic strata focusing on susceptible population groups, which may be affected by enhanced exposure to environmental toxicants stemming from municipal and industrial waste management and domestic heating or cooking using biomass. These features make socioeconomic status and the consequent social (in)justice a key determinant of overall exposure early in life. The latter results in a high probability of onset or exacerbation of adverse health outcomes both in the medium term and later in life. Additional factors that affect the health impacts of environmental exposures comprise choice of diet, education level of parents, access to green or blue space and housing condition.
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - memSIC, Apr 17, 2022
HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
Epidemiology, Nov 1, 2008
The current study aims at a comprehensive risk characterization of bisphenol A (BPA)<br> su... more The current study aims at a comprehensive risk characterization of bisphenol A (BPA)<br> supported by an integrated exposure modelling framework that comprises far field and near<br> field exposure modelling coupled to a dynamic lifetime PBTK model. Exposure analysis was<br> done on European data of BPA food residues and human biomonitoring (HBM). The latter<br> were further assimilated through an advanced exposure reconstruction modelling framework<br> to estimate the corresponding external and internal systemic dose of BPA and its<br> metabolites. Special attention was paid on the assessment of exposure to BPA during critical<br> developmental stages such as gestation by modelling the mother-fetus toxicokinetic<br> interaction. Our findings showed that current exposure levels in Europe are below the<br> temporary Tolerable Daily Intake (t-TDI) of 4 μg/kg_bw/d proposed by the European Food<br> Safety Authority. Taking into...
Studying future climatic change effects on atmospheric processes and air quality one should consi... more Studying future climatic change effects on atmospheric processes and air quality one should consider the inherent uncertainties in trying to mathematically describe the associated phenomena. When quantifying such processes is more reliable to talk about trends rather than absolute values. Within the objectives of the present study is to provide high space and time resolution concentrations trends for the period 2001-2050, following the moderate Representative Concentration Pathway - RCP4.5, on major air pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, NO2, O3) in Europe, focusing on nine (9) cities i.e. Thessaloniki, Athens, Madrid, Stuttgart, Ljubljana, Brno, Milan, Basel and Copenhagen/Roskilde. To achieve such an objective, a common approach in the past, has been to perform weather and air quality simulations for a complete year but only for a limited number of years. Such an approach has the inherent weakness that the results represent the selected year only and not the neighboring ones due to the high...
Atmospheric Environment, 2022
ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2011
Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks, 2019
This chapter lays out and critically assesses the current evidence on combined exposure to health... more This chapter lays out and critically assesses the current evidence on combined exposure to health hazards in specific indoor built environments to identify the most frequent exposure combinations and to estimate the impact of combined exposure on risk ratios for reported health outcomes. Actual exposure within the indoor built environment may vary significantly depending on the proximity to traffic sources (particulate matter [PM], NO2), the presence of strong indoor emissions from combustion sources such as biomass for space heating (PM, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs]), smoking (PM, PAHs, volatile organic compounds [VOCs], carbonyls), building materials (VOCs), furnishings (carbonyls and phthalates), and consumer products (phthalates, flame retardants, polychlorinated biphenyls, and pesticides). Assessment of cumulative risks was done following a tiered level of complexity, according to the prototype connectivity approach developed by the authors. Occupants are continuousl...
Science of The Total Environment, 2017
The Charilaos Trikoupis bridge, known as bridge of Rio-Antirrio, is one of the world's longest ca... more The Charilaos Trikoupis bridge, known as bridge of Rio-Antirrio, is one of the world's longest cable-stayed bridge of multiple openings in the world, with a total length of 2,252 meters. It connects Western Greece with the rest of the country. In this study an overview of the air pollution monitoring in the area in 2013-2014 is presented. Four campaigns were realized in the course of the last two years. The exact periods of the two annual campaigns were selected taking into account the high traffic seasons according to a careful examination of the bridge traffic patterns. In each of the campaigns PM2.5, PM10 and TSP were sampled every 24 hours near the edges of the bridge located in the urban areas of Rio and Antirrio, using low-volume automatic sequential samplers. Dynamic measurements of CO, NOx, SO2, PM2.5 and PM10 were also performed continuously during the 10-day periods. TSP were collected on quartz filters (203 mm × 254 mm) in order to determine lead (Pb). Lead concentrations were measured using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Moreover, meteorological data (wind speed and direction, temperature, cloud cover and humidity) were recorded. The pollution data were analyzed statistically and the quality of the air was characterized according to the US Environmental Protection Agency indicators and the European Common Air Quality Index framework. The results indicated that air pollution levels are in generally below the regulatory thresholds. Across the three summer sampling sessions (N = 10 days) the average PM10 daily concentrations at the Rio site were 19.7 μg/m 3 , 20.1 μg/m 3 , 19.2 μg/m 3 only slightly higher than that at the Antirrio site that were 17 μg/m 3 , 17.5 μg/m 3 and 12.6 μg/m 3 (for the 1 st , 3 rd , 4 th periods respectively). The PM2.5 were 8.7 μg/m 3 , 10.61 μg/m 3 , 8.9 μg/m 3 at Rio site while at Antrirrio were 7.8 μg/m 3 , 9.22 μg/m 3 , 7 μg/m 3 (for the 1 st , 3 rd , 4 th periods respectively). Moreover, the traffic emissions from the bridge are not the main source of air pollution in the area. During the winter period of sampling (2 nd) PM2.5 and PM10 levels were below 25 and 50 μg/m 3 on both sides of the bridge almost every day. These limits were exceeded only one day (5/12/2013) on the side of Antirrio (26.4 and 52.2 μg/m 3 for PM2.5 and ΡΜ10 respectively). However, during the winter period, PM2.5 and PM10 levels are higher due to the use of light oil and biomass burning for space heating. Pb levels were very low; the average daily value recorded (2,6 ng/m 3) is two orders of magnitude lower than the regulatory limit of 0.5 mg/m 3. Hourly average concentrations of CO, SO2, NO and ΝΟ2 for the both sides were below the regulatory thresholds. Overall the contribution of the Charilaos Trikoupis bridge to the surrounding air pollution levels is very low. This is the result of the relatively low daily volume of vehicles (~ 10000 vehicles per day), the respective traffic fleet composition (~80% of the traffic fleet are passenger vehicles) and the speed limit (80 km/h) which does not favor traffic emissions. In addition, the strong and frequent winds further contribute to the rapid dispersion of the emitted pollutants.
Science of The Total Environment, 2017
Underground rail reduces health impact attributed to PM x in cities. • Changes in traffic composi... more Underground rail reduces health impact attributed to PM x in cities. • Changes in traffic composition reduce health impacts attributed to NO 2 and C 6 H 6. • Monetary savings from PM 10 and PM 2.5 exposure correspond to 60 and 49 million Euro. • Monetary savings from NO 2 and C 6 H 6 exposure correspond to 41 and 1 million Euro. • 3-4% reduction in mortality and morbidity from green transport policies.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage t... more Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage to structural and non-structural components and the potential release of toxic materials. To mitigate and manage this risk, the ROSSINI project was initiated and its results are described here for what concerns industrial plant worker safety and their risk-based navigation in emergency situations. The project includes a data acquisition system consisting of a data acquisition board and an array of different sensor technologies, which process the seismic event and other meteorological information before passing them as inputs towards the risk identi cation and evaluation (RIE) modules. Here, the risks associated with structural and non-structural damage and health risks associated with the release of harmful substances are estimated and combined to form a navigable risk map. This map is used within a purpose-built riskbased navigation application for the safe egress of workers from an industrial plant. To demonstrate the implementation of this system, two case-study industrial plant layouts consisting of buildings, nonstructural components, liquid storage tanks, piping systems, and chemical storage vessels, were devised. This paper describes the project's implementation in these contexts and illustrates the results via several example scenarios.
Environmental health perspectives, Sep 18, 2022
Research Square (Research Square), Nov 29, 2022
Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage t... more Industrial plants are quite susceptible to NaTech disasters during earthquakes caused by damage to structural and non-structural components and the potential release of toxic materials. To mitigate and manage this risk, the ROSSINI project was initiated and its results are described here for what concerns industrial plant worker safety and their risk-based navigation in emergency situations. The project includes a data acquisition system consisting of a data acquisition board and an array of different sensor technologies, which process the seismic event and other meteorological information before passing them as inputs towards the risk identi cation and evaluation (RIE) modules. Here, the risks associated with structural and non-structural damage and health risks associated with the release of harmful substances are estimated and combined to form a navigable risk map. This map is used within a purpose-built riskbased navigation application for the safe egress of workers from an industrial plant. To demonstrate the implementation of this system, two case-study industrial plant layouts consisting of buildings, nonstructural components, liquid storage tanks, piping systems, and chemical storage vessels, were devised. This paper describes the project's implementation in these contexts and illustrates the results via several example scenarios.
Advances in Human Services and Public Health, 2019
The main issues that pertain to the health burden from waste management and energy resource use a... more The main issues that pertain to the health burden from waste management and energy resource use are laid out highlighting the aspects that determine actual exposure and the socioeconomic conditions that underlie them. Case studies covering biomass burning, acute and chronic exposure to urban and industrial waste are described. They refer to different areas in Europe and socioeconomic strata focusing on susceptible population groups, which may be affected by enhanced exposure to environmental toxicants stemming from municipal and industrial waste management and domestic heating or cooking using biomass. These features make socioeconomic status and the consequent social (in)justice a key determinant of overall exposure early in life. The latter results in a high probability of onset or exacerbation of adverse health outcomes both in the medium term and later in life. Additional factors that affect the health impacts of environmental exposures comprise choice of diet, education level of parents, access to green or blue space and housing condition.
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - memSIC, Apr 17, 2022
HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
Epidemiology, Nov 1, 2008
The current study aims at a comprehensive risk characterization of bisphenol A (BPA)<br> su... more The current study aims at a comprehensive risk characterization of bisphenol A (BPA)<br> supported by an integrated exposure modelling framework that comprises far field and near<br> field exposure modelling coupled to a dynamic lifetime PBTK model. Exposure analysis was<br> done on European data of BPA food residues and human biomonitoring (HBM). The latter<br> were further assimilated through an advanced exposure reconstruction modelling framework<br> to estimate the corresponding external and internal systemic dose of BPA and its<br> metabolites. Special attention was paid on the assessment of exposure to BPA during critical<br> developmental stages such as gestation by modelling the mother-fetus toxicokinetic<br> interaction. Our findings showed that current exposure levels in Europe are below the<br> temporary Tolerable Daily Intake (t-TDI) of 4 μg/kg_bw/d proposed by the European Food<br> Safety Authority. Taking into...
Studying future climatic change effects on atmospheric processes and air quality one should consi... more Studying future climatic change effects on atmospheric processes and air quality one should consider the inherent uncertainties in trying to mathematically describe the associated phenomena. When quantifying such processes is more reliable to talk about trends rather than absolute values. Within the objectives of the present study is to provide high space and time resolution concentrations trends for the period 2001-2050, following the moderate Representative Concentration Pathway - RCP4.5, on major air pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, NO2, O3) in Europe, focusing on nine (9) cities i.e. Thessaloniki, Athens, Madrid, Stuttgart, Ljubljana, Brno, Milan, Basel and Copenhagen/Roskilde. To achieve such an objective, a common approach in the past, has been to perform weather and air quality simulations for a complete year but only for a limited number of years. Such an approach has the inherent weakness that the results represent the selected year only and not the neighboring ones due to the high...
Atmospheric Environment, 2022
ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2011
Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks, 2019
This chapter lays out and critically assesses the current evidence on combined exposure to health... more This chapter lays out and critically assesses the current evidence on combined exposure to health hazards in specific indoor built environments to identify the most frequent exposure combinations and to estimate the impact of combined exposure on risk ratios for reported health outcomes. Actual exposure within the indoor built environment may vary significantly depending on the proximity to traffic sources (particulate matter [PM], NO2), the presence of strong indoor emissions from combustion sources such as biomass for space heating (PM, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs]), smoking (PM, PAHs, volatile organic compounds [VOCs], carbonyls), building materials (VOCs), furnishings (carbonyls and phthalates), and consumer products (phthalates, flame retardants, polychlorinated biphenyls, and pesticides). Assessment of cumulative risks was done following a tiered level of complexity, according to the prototype connectivity approach developed by the authors. Occupants are continuousl...
Science of The Total Environment, 2017
The Charilaos Trikoupis bridge, known as bridge of Rio-Antirrio, is one of the world's longest ca... more The Charilaos Trikoupis bridge, known as bridge of Rio-Antirrio, is one of the world's longest cable-stayed bridge of multiple openings in the world, with a total length of 2,252 meters. It connects Western Greece with the rest of the country. In this study an overview of the air pollution monitoring in the area in 2013-2014 is presented. Four campaigns were realized in the course of the last two years. The exact periods of the two annual campaigns were selected taking into account the high traffic seasons according to a careful examination of the bridge traffic patterns. In each of the campaigns PM2.5, PM10 and TSP were sampled every 24 hours near the edges of the bridge located in the urban areas of Rio and Antirrio, using low-volume automatic sequential samplers. Dynamic measurements of CO, NOx, SO2, PM2.5 and PM10 were also performed continuously during the 10-day periods. TSP were collected on quartz filters (203 mm × 254 mm) in order to determine lead (Pb). Lead concentrations were measured using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Moreover, meteorological data (wind speed and direction, temperature, cloud cover and humidity) were recorded. The pollution data were analyzed statistically and the quality of the air was characterized according to the US Environmental Protection Agency indicators and the European Common Air Quality Index framework. The results indicated that air pollution levels are in generally below the regulatory thresholds. Across the three summer sampling sessions (N = 10 days) the average PM10 daily concentrations at the Rio site were 19.7 μg/m 3 , 20.1 μg/m 3 , 19.2 μg/m 3 only slightly higher than that at the Antirrio site that were 17 μg/m 3 , 17.5 μg/m 3 and 12.6 μg/m 3 (for the 1 st , 3 rd , 4 th periods respectively). The PM2.5 were 8.7 μg/m 3 , 10.61 μg/m 3 , 8.9 μg/m 3 at Rio site while at Antrirrio were 7.8 μg/m 3 , 9.22 μg/m 3 , 7 μg/m 3 (for the 1 st , 3 rd , 4 th periods respectively). Moreover, the traffic emissions from the bridge are not the main source of air pollution in the area. During the winter period of sampling (2 nd) PM2.5 and PM10 levels were below 25 and 50 μg/m 3 on both sides of the bridge almost every day. These limits were exceeded only one day (5/12/2013) on the side of Antirrio (26.4 and 52.2 μg/m 3 for PM2.5 and ΡΜ10 respectively). However, during the winter period, PM2.5 and PM10 levels are higher due to the use of light oil and biomass burning for space heating. Pb levels were very low; the average daily value recorded (2,6 ng/m 3) is two orders of magnitude lower than the regulatory limit of 0.5 mg/m 3. Hourly average concentrations of CO, SO2, NO and ΝΟ2 for the both sides were below the regulatory thresholds. Overall the contribution of the Charilaos Trikoupis bridge to the surrounding air pollution levels is very low. This is the result of the relatively low daily volume of vehicles (~ 10000 vehicles per day), the respective traffic fleet composition (~80% of the traffic fleet are passenger vehicles) and the speed limit (80 km/h) which does not favor traffic emissions. In addition, the strong and frequent winds further contribute to the rapid dispersion of the emitted pollutants.