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15 - Regulations and Public Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

Christian Seigneur
Christian Seigneur
Affiliation:
École des Ponts Paris Tech
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Summary

Improving air quality by decreasing air pollutant concentration levels requires promulgating regulations that protect public health, ecosystems, the agriculture, buildings, and atmospheric visibility. Then, public policies must be implemented to design, apply, and evaluate emission control strategies to meet the regulatory standards. In this chapter, the general approach for the development of regulations to protect public health via ambient air quality standards is described first. These regulations and the implementation of the associated public policies differ among countries. Those used in the United States and in France are presented here comparatively to illustrate slightly different approaches. Finally, approaches used at the national and international levels to regulate atmospheric deposition and global atmospheric issues (i.e., destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer and climate change) are presented.

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Air Pollution
Concepts, Theory, and Applications
 , pp. 327 - 345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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