Author(s)

D.M. Elsom

Abstract

In local and regional areas where air quality currently exceeds air quality standards, or may do so in the future, there is a need to develop an appropriate scientific and decision-making framework within which effective air quality management may be undertaken. The tools and components of an air quality management framework include health- and environment-based air quality standards, air quality and meteorological monitoring networks, emissions inventories, validated numerical dispersion models to calculate spatial patterns of air pollution concentrations over the short-term (to forecast episodes or smogs) and long-term (future years), regulatory instruments, a system of communicating with the community (to engage the community in decision-making as well as alerting the public to periods of poor air qualit

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