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Is local air quality management a successful strategy for achieving selected EU limit values?

Barnes, J. H.; Hayes, Enda T; Longhurst, James

Authors

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Enda Hayes Enda.Hayes@uwe.ac.uk
Prof in Air Quality & Carbon Management/School Director (Research & Enterprise)



Contributors

Carlos A. Brebbia
Editor

Abstract

This research examines the role of Local Air Quality Management Action Planning in achieving the EU limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) annual mean, focusing on those Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) declared in England before July 2005 for exceedences of the NO2 annual mean objective from road traffic sources. The paper describes the initial stages of the methodology, analysing the availability of Air Quality Action Plans (AQAPs) and annual mean NO2 monitoring data. The research finds an absence of government monitoring sites with adequate nitrogen dioxide data relative to the selected AQMAs, as well as an absence of AQAPs and annual progress reports. The paper concludes that Local Air Quality Management is insufficiently calibrated to provide adequate support to the achievement of the EU limit value for NO2 annual mean.

Publication Date Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date Mar 14, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 14, 2016
Publisher WIT Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 183
Pages 285-297
Series Title WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
Book Title Air Pollution XXII
ISBN 9781845647827
DOI https://doi.org/10.2495/AIR140241
Keywords air quality
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/823041
Publisher URL http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/183/28310
Contract Date Mar 14, 2016