Air quality management in Botswana

Urban Air Quality Management

A History of Air Quality Management

A brief history of air pollution management in Canada is provided in this chapter. Whether the issue be acid rain, ground level ozone, particulate matter, air toxics, or emergency releases of air pollutants, Canada has traditionally built a management approach on: strong science; a desire to move in a similar direction to our southern friends, the U.S.A.; connections to the rest of the world; a...

Linking agricultural crop management and air quality

Linking agricultural crop management and air quality models for regional to national-scale nitrogen assessments E. J. Cooter, J. O. Bash, V. Benson, and L. Ran United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Lab, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Benson Consulting, Columbia, Missouri, USA University of North Carolina, Insti...

Machine learning algorithms in air quality modeling

Modern studies in the field of environment science and engineering show that deterministic models struggle to capture the relationship between the concentration of atmospheric pollutants and their emission sources. The recent advances in statistical modeling based on machine learning approaches have emerged as solution to tackle these issues. It is a fact that, input variable type largely affec...

Accelerating the spread of laboratory quality improvement efforts in Botswana

BACKGROUND In 2002, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Botswana began its journey toward laboratory accreditation in an effort to enhance the quality of laboratory services. After a difficult start, the MoH recognised the need for a more practical and sustainable method for change that could be implemented nationally; they therefore adopted the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditat...