Urban Ecosystem Sustainability Impacts of Air Quality

When considering a problem as vast as the consequences of atmospheric air pollution, it is necessary to take into account many aspects which in turn have various economic and social effects beyond its physiological and environmental effects. It can harm economic competitiveness and limit the ability to attract desirable economic activity. In simple terminology, we can say that air pollution effects can be both direct and indirect. We have studied the relationship between the air quality and the environmental, social and economic consequences, such as the property values in the city, the employee's productivity and their ability to work; developing a study pilot in Cartagena, a city located in the Region of Murcia, Spain.