Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hidy, George M. (Editor), Brook, Jeffrey R. (Editor), Demerjian, Kenneth L. (Editor), Molina, Luisa T. (Editor), Pennell, William T. (Editor), Scheffe, Richard D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Epidemiology.; Ecosystems.; Climate change.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Air pollution.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Environmental Chemistry.; Climate Change.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
• Physical Description: XXVIII, 553 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400703049

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 book assesses 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.