Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management [Paperback]

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.This book assesses the factors involved in implementing a risk-based approach to air quality management that includes means for measuring the effectiveness of decisions, and outlines the technical developments needed to achieve emission reduction decisions.1:?Introduction2:?Decision-Making Framework for Air Quality Management3:?Risk-Based Assessment and Management Framework4:?Health Assessment Aspects of RISK- and Results-Based MultiPollutant Air Quality ManagementEcosystems6:?Atmospheric Science of Air Pollution PhenomenaCurrent Directions toward Exposure Characterization7:?Source Emissions in Multipollutant Air Quality Management8:?Atmospheric modeling9:?Air quality measurements10:?Global change and air quality11:?Past examples of multipopllutant air quality management and accountability12:?Toward riskand resultsbased multipollutant air quality management. Whats next? 13:?Conclusions and recommendationsRecent critiques of air quality management approaches currently employed in developed and many developingcountries have suggested that efficiencies could be achieved if air quality management practices shifted frompollutant-by-pollutant approaches to a comprehensive multipollutant approach in which emission reduction decisionsare based on relative risk and evaluated onl³i