REPERCUSSION OF VISUAL P
Sagvan Ag
Department of Environm
ARTICLE INFO
INTRODUCTION
We are aware of various types of pollution: w
pollution, noise pollution. All these kinds o
measured and quantified, but certain forms
our aesthetic senses, are very difficult to mea
This type of pollution is called aesthetic
pollution is one of them [1]. The impacts o
are in tremendous enhancement tremendousl
understand what does visual pollution mea
visual areas of people by creating negativ
natural environment. Billboard, open storag
debris, telephone towers, electrics wire
automobiles are forms of visual pollution. T
of an area results in visual pollution. M
pollution is defined as the whole of irregular
is mostly found in natural and built enviro
clutter can be experienced in daily life in m
congested street, it may impair a person's abi
objects in such environments or in finding
trying to meet in the street [3].
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Article History:
Received 6
th
October, 2018
Received in revised form 15
th
November, 2018
Accepted 12
th
December, 2018
Published online 28
th
January, 2019
Key words:
Visual pollution, Psychological Health, Duhok
Center, Duhok Suburbs, Zakho-Duhok Road.
*Corresponding author: Sagvan Ageed
Department of Environmental Science, Fac
Zakho University, Zakho, Iraq
POLLUTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOME
GOVERNORATE/IRAQ
geed., NajmadinE.Hassan and SalihF.Ismael
mental Science, Faculty of Science, Zakho University
ABSTRACT
In spite of the scientific development and the contin
different fields, the economic prosperity in many socie
time has negatively affected health and the environment
pollution that raised from caused by industrial progress,
types of pollution, and therefore must be seriously ta
pollution is an aesthetic issue referring to the impacts o
to enjoy a vista or view. The term of visual pollution is
made visual elements of vista, a landscape or any othe
feel comfortable to look at. The purpose of this study w
pollution and its influenceon public psychological healt
and suburbs and also Zakho-Duhok Road. The result
presenting a group of photographs related to some case
from of different age consisted of group of females an
August 2017 to May 2018 from the Centre of Duhok a
the City of Zakho and Duhok that there was a discrep
discomfort for those people who were questioned res
related to visual pollution and lead to the occurrenc
illnesses. The good planning and managing is neglected
awareness about reducing the visual pollution and other
and working in harmony with a clean environment
environmental protection laws.
water pollution, air
of pollution can be
of pollution affect
asure and identify.
c pollution. visual
of visual pollution
ly day after day to
an it disturbs the
ve changes in the
ge of trash, space
es, building and
The overcrowding
Moreover, Visual
r formation, which
onment [2]. Visual
messy desk to the
ility to find certain
a person, we are
Cables or wires running in
unorganized way, billboards a
dilapidated buildings dumped
poles and sky writing [4]. Ch
visual pollution from childhoo
aesthetics and they get fa
surroundings, even lose their
The haze obscure visibility is o
is absorbed or scattered by
sulphates, nitrates, organic car
dust. Nitrogen dioxide and
contribute to haze. Haze is
brownish-grey cloud hovering
many beautiful vistas in U.S na
park in Maine, visual range on
On a hazy day, that can be red
haze at Grand Canyon national
could not see across the 10-mi
coal-fired electric plant, the N
about 80 miles north Grand C
source of the pollution cau
researching at Colorado State
containing deuterium into the p
rrent Advanced Research
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culty of Science,
PEOPLE IN DUHOK
y, Zakho, Iraq
nuous technological progress in all
eties has increased. But at the same
t as a whole due to different cases of
, and visual pollution is one of those
aken into consideration. So visual
of pollution that impair one’s ability
also given to unattractive and man-
er things that make a person not to
was to identify repercussion of visual
th of some people in Duhok Centre
ts showed us from this study after
es of visual pollution on 500 people
nd males during nine months from
and its Suburbs and the road linking
pancy in the cases of Psychological
sulting from looking at that image
ce of some cases of Psychological
d by Government adding the lack of
r types of pollution on a daily basis
through activating and enforcing
n the urban areas in quite
are arranged and dazzling. Old
d construction materials utility
hildren closely associated with
od are generally bereft of subtle
amiliar with these unsightly
natural desire to correct it [5].
occurred. It is caused when light
y pollution particles such as
rbon compounds, soot, and soil
d other pollution gases also
most dramatically seen as a
g over cities, but also obscures
ational parks. At acedia national
a clear day canreach 199 miles.
duced to 30 miles. At its worst,
l park was so severe that people
iles wide canyon. An enormous
Navajo power generating station,
Canyon, was thought to be the
using canyon haze. In 1985
e University injected methane-
power plant’s smoke emissions.
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