Multipollutant Air Quality Management

A Risk-based Assessment And Management Framework For Multipollutant Air Quality.

The National Research Council recommended both a risk- and performance-based multipollutant approach to air quality management. Specifically, management decisions should be based on minimizing the exposure to, and risk of adverse effects from, multiple sources of air pollution and that the success of these decisions should be measured by how well they achieved this objective. We briefly describ...

Optimization of multipollutant air quality management strategies: A case study for five cities in the United States.

UNLABELLED Developing regional air quality management strategies is a difficult task because formation of air pollutants is interdependent and air quality at different locations may have different responses to emissions from common sources. We developed an optimization-based model, OPtimal integrated Emission Reduction Alternatives (OPERA), which allows for identifications of least-cost control...

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...