Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management
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
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George M. Hidy • Jeffrey R. Brook Kenneth L. Demerjian • Luisa T. Molina William T. Pennell • Richard D. Scheffe Editors
Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management
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Editors Dr. George M. Hidy Envair/Aerochem 6 Evergreen Drive, Placitas NM 87043 USA [email protected] Dr. Jeffrey R. Brook Environment Canada 4905 Dufferin St., Downsview Ontario M3H5T4 Canada [email protected] Dr. Kenneth L. Demerjian Atmospheric Sciences Research Center University at Albany CESTM 251 Fuller Road, Albany NY 12203 USA [email protected]
Dr. Luisa T. Molina Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Molina Center for Energy and the Environment 3252 Holiday Court, Suite 223 La Jolla, CA 92037 USA [email protected] William T. Pennell Columbia Research and Education Associates 7420 Ricky Road, Pasco WA 99301 USA [email protected] Dr. Richard D. Scheffe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 109 T W Alexander Drive Mail Code: C304-01 Research Triangle Park NC 27711 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-0303-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0304-9 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0304-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011926968 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Important changes in air quality management practices are currently underway, especially in the United States and Canada. These changes emphasize (a) improving the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation as it affects human and ecological health, (b) integrating management strategies to minimize risk from multipollutant exposure, and (c) broadening the scope of air quality management to consider the implications of climate change. Because of these changes, the NARSTO Executive Assembly in 2007 directed the NARSTO Management Coordinator to initiate an assessment1 of the technical challenges facing the atmospheric sciences in implementing risk- and results-based, multipollutant air quality management in North America. The intended audience for the assessment is air quality management decision-makers in Canada, the United States, and Mexico (and especially their technical staffs). However, the assessment also gives an in-depth summary of the technical issues facing contemporary air quality management that should be of interest to air quality professionals outside North America, to non-governmental organizations interested in air quality problems, and to the international academic and research communities, including faculty and students of the atmospheric and environmental sciences. The formal
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