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Judging the risk of exceedance: Local authority decision-making for air quality management area designation (2003)
Journal Article
Woodfield, N. K., Longhurst, J., Beattie, C. I., & Laxen, D. P. (2003). Judging the risk of exceedance: Local authority decision-making for air quality management area designation. Local Environment, 8(4), 423-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549830306665

Management of air quality by local government in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) requires a process of local decision-making, involving collaboration between local politicians, authority officers and interest-groups... Read More about Judging the risk of exceedance: Local authority decision-making for air quality management area designation.

Critical evaluation of the role of scientific analysis in UK local authority AQMA decision-making: Method development and preliminary results (2003)
Journal Article
Woodfield, N. K., Longhurst, J., Beattie, C. I., & Laxen, D. P. (2003). Critical evaluation of the role of scientific analysis in UK local authority AQMA decision-making: Method development and preliminary results. Science of the Total Environment, 311(1-3), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-9697%2802%2900675-7

Over the past 4 years, local government in the UK has undertaken a process of scientific review and assessment of air quality, which has culminated in a suite of designated air quality management areas (AQMAs) in over 120 of the 403 local authorities... Read More about Critical evaluation of the role of scientific analysis in UK local authority AQMA decision-making: Method development and preliminary results.

Regional variations in the implementation of the local air quality management process within Great Britain (2003)
Journal Article
Woodfield, N. K., Longhurst, J., Beattie, C. I., & Laxen, D. P. (2003). Regional variations in the implementation of the local air quality management process within Great Britain. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 46(1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/713676705

The UK National Air Quality Strategy has required local authorities to review and assess air quality in their area of jurisdiction and determine locations in their areas where concentrations of specific air quality pollutants are predicted to exceed... Read More about Regional variations in the implementation of the local air quality management process within Great Britain.