Review Article
Systematic Review of Air Quality Management in Urban Environments: Planning for Healthy Cities Using the One Health Approach
Zinabu Dawit*
,
Samuel Dessu Sifer,
Tsegay Gebrezgher,
Melkamu Melese Megalo,
Asmelash Dagne,
Hayal Desta
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 6, December 2025
Pages:
138-151
Received:
13 September 2025
Accepted:
16 October 2025
Published:
22 November 2025
Abstract: Background: Air Quality Management in urban environments is a planned and interdisplinary practice expected at follow up, regulatory, and decreasing air contamination to keep community well-being and the atmosphere. Through fast development, people growing, and urban motor traffic growth, numerous municipalities particularly in Global south countries expression thoughtful air quality encounters. The aim review evaluates air quality management in urban environments with emphasis on planning for healthy cities. Methodology: The systematic review observes global compositions evaluating air quality administration methods, through an emphasis happening controlling contexts, wellbeing influences, checking systems, and city development policies. Databases containing PubMed, Web of science, and Google Scholar remained used to identify peer-reviewed articles, official reports, and case studies. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 55 documents were selected for thematic analysis. Important themes included pollution sources, health and environmental impacts, urban planning strategies, technological innovations, and policy frameworks. Results: Results show that though industrialized countries require applied organized air quality administration methods reinforced through law for instance the U.S. Clean Air Act and EU Air Quality Directives, where unindustrialized nations fight through split strategies, inadequate statistical records, and inadequate official capability. Progressive tackles for example low-cost sensors, digital urban twins, and real-time pollution forecasting are existence progressively accepted to increase policymaking. Municipalities that combined air quality administration with city forecasting established better wellbeing results, counting compact respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Though, important obstacles persist, for instance inadequate finance, administrative resolve, and community commitment. Conclusions: Operative city air quality managing is vital to design for healthy metropolises. The evaluation highlights that effective air quality controlling needs robust authority, consistent facts, innovative skills, and lively investment participation. Metropolises obligation implant air quality deliberations into wider ecological and growth rules to accomplish permanent developments. City air pollution finished complete and comprehensive policies should be serious intended for protection community wellbeing, attaining weather objectives, and making strong city surroundings.
Abstract: Background: Air Quality Management in urban environments is a planned and interdisplinary practice expected at follow up, regulatory, and decreasing air contamination to keep community well-being and the atmosphere. Through fast development, people growing, and urban motor traffic growth, numerous municipalities particularly in Global south countri...
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Review Article
Effects of Exclosures on Vegetative and Soil Fertility Improvement in the Highlands of Ethiopia: Review
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 6, December 2025
Pages:
152-160
Received:
7 October 2025
Accepted:
21 October 2025
Published:
3 December 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijepp.20251306.12
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Abstract: Land degradation, which includes all elements that reduce the land's ability to function and generate ecosystem products and services, is the ongoing deterioration of the land's loss of productive capacity. 50% of the Ethiopian highlands had experienced major erosion, posing serious ecological and socioeconomic problems for both the rural populations' way of life and the environment. To reduce these problems locals’ experienced different mechanisms from the Exclosures is the one. Exclosures are places that are off-limits to domestic animals and humans in order to encourage plant regeneration naturally and lessen the degradation of formerly deteriorated communal grazing fields. Exclosures have been used extensively and have demonstrated encouraging outcomes in restoring damaged areas through natural regeneration with little financial or input needed. The review paper's overall goal is to examine the effects of exclosures on increases in soil fertility and vegetative growth in Ethiopia's highlands. Exacerbates the degradation of Ethiopia's soil, vegetation cover, and nutrient depletion, land degradation poses a serious challenge to sustainable land use and impacts the livelihood of the country's rural population. In contrast to open land, which had low species richness and evenly dispersed species, exclosures had higher diversity, richer biodiversity, and a less even distribution of species. Scholars found that after 22 years of establishment, exclosures in the Ethiopian highlands had double the plant species richness and diversity value compared to communal grazing pastures. Exclosures are often the best way to improve soil fertility and vegetation diversity and richness in Ethiopia's highlands when compared to open ground, grazing land, crop land, and communal land.
Abstract: Land degradation, which includes all elements that reduce the land's ability to function and generate ecosystem products and services, is the ongoing deterioration of the land's loss of productive capacity. 50% of the Ethiopian highlands had experienced major erosion, posing serious ecological and socioeconomic problems for both the rural populatio...
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