Tools for Improving Air Quality Management : A Review of Top-down Source Apportionment Techniques and Their Application in Developing Countries
Building an effective air quality management system (AQMS) requires a process of continual improvement, and the source apportionment techniques described in this report can contribute in a cost effective manner to improving existing systems or even...
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| Format: | ESMAP Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/03/18382056/tools-improving-air-quality-management-review-top-down-sourcebrapportionment-techniques-application-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17488 |
| Summary: | Building an effective air quality
management system (AQMS) requires a process of continual
improvement, and the source apportionment techniques
described in this report can contribute in a cost effective
manner to improving existing systems or even as the first
step to begin an AQMS. This is good news for many developing
country cities where the combination of rapid growth, dirty
fuels, and old and polluting technologies are overwhelming
the capacities of cities to control air pollution. For these
cities, source apportionment offers policymakers practical
tools for identifying and quantifying the different sources
of air pollution, and thereby increasing the ability to put
in place effective policy measures to reduce air pollution
to acceptable levels. This report arises from a concern over
the lack of objective and scientifically-based information
on the contributions of different sources of air pollution,
especially for fi ne particulate matter (PM), in developing
countries. PM is the air pollutant of most concern for
adverse health effects, and in urban areas alone accounts
for approximately 800,000 premature deaths worldwide each year. |
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