Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management

by Hidy, George M.; Brook, Jeffrey R.; Demerjian, Kenneth L.; Molina, Luisa T.; Pennell, William T.

• ISBN13: 9789400703032
• ISBN10: 9400703031
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-04
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Recent critiques of air quality management approaches currently employed in developed and many developing countries have suggested that efficiencies could be achieved if air quality management practices shifted from pollutant-by-pollutant approaches to a comprehensive multipollutant approach in which emission reduction decisions are based on relative risk and evaluated on their effectiveness in meeting environmental and health goals. This bookassesses our technical readiness to undertake such an approach, and it outlines the technical developments that will be needed to achieve a risk-based approach air quality management that includes means for measuring the effectiveness of management decisions.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary	p. 1
Introduction	p. 19
Decision-Making Framework for Air Quality Management	p. 23
Risk-Based Assessment and Management Framework	p. 45
Health Assessment Aspects of Risk- and Results-Based Multipollutant Air Quality Management	p. 67
Ecosystems	p. 139
Atmospheric Science of Air Pollution Phenomena-Current Directions Toward Exposure Characterization	p. 231
Source Emissions in Multipollutant Air Quality Management	p. 261
Atmospheric Modeling	p. 299
Air Quality Measurements	p. 339
Global Change and Air Quality	p. 395
Past Examples of Multipopllutant Air Quality Management and Accountability	p. 433
Toward Risk- and Results-Based Multipollutant Air Quality Management-What's Next?	p. 505
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 529
Index	p. 541
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