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The Urban Exposure Project is an EU funded project to produce a state of the art, user-friendly management decision software tool for administrators to help them quantify and deal with the real health risks associated with pollution in urban environments. The project, which began in December 2002 will run for 3 years and will quantify the relationship between outdoor pollution measurements and actual exposure suffered by people in urban indoor environments. The resulting product will be extensively field tested in 2 European urban centres before being made available to administrators. This paper gives an overview of the project and a summary of its achievements at the end of its first year.

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Health aspects of aerosols Environmental particles Indoor particles Lung-particle interactions

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Exposure Risks from Pollutants in Domestic Environments: The Urban Exposure Project

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