ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF LAND USE CHANGES ON AIR POLLUTION REMOVAL CAPACITY: A THREE-DECADE ANALYSIS APPLYING THE I-TREE ECO MODEL

Muhammad Jabbar, Muhammad Ghous, Aysha Hanif, Zulfiqar Ali, Abdul Ghaffar and Sulman Munir
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Muhammad Jabbar: Department of Geography, Government Associate College (B), Shalimar Town, Lahore, Pakistan
Muhammad Ghous: Department of Geography, Government Graduate College of Science, Wahdat Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Aysha Hanif: Department of Geography, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan
Zulfiqar Ali: Department of Geography, Government Islamia Graduate College, Railway Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Abdul Ghaffar: Department of Geography, Government MAO College, Lahore, Pakistan
Sulman Munir: Department of Geography, Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan

Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 2023, vol. 12, issue 2, 188-194

Abstract: Urban vegetation is a greenery and plant found within urban areas. It encompasses a diverse range of flora including trees shrubs grasses flowers and other forms of vegetation that thrive amidst the concrete and infrastructure of urban environments. But urban growth continuously removes this and causes atmospheric pollution in third world countries like Pakistan. Therefore being the most rapidly growing city in Pakistan Lahore was selected as a study area to analyze the air pollution removal capacity from 1990 to 2020. For this Landsat images of 1990 2000 2010 and 2020 were used by applying the I-Tree Eco Model and found that the study area lost 2934.06 tons in pollutants removal capacity from 1990 to 2020 at 94.65 tons/year. Therefore it is suggested that urban vegetation should be preserved and maintained as a primary pillar of urban society. As cities continue to grow and urbanization intensifies, there is a time to understand the significance of urban vegetation becomes increasingly critical.

Keywords: Air Pollution; Land Use Changes; Pollutant Removal Capacity; Urban Vegetation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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