Air Quality Management: Canadian Perspectives on a Global Issue

ISBN-13: 9789402402681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 408 str.

Eric Taylor; Ann McMillan

Opis

This accessible analysis of Canada's record on managing air quality at federal and provincial levels includes the basic meteorological and public health theory, advanced data on emissions and dispersal, and a review of efforts to combat pollution from the USA.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART I – Air Pollution Science

Chapter 2. A History of Air Quality Management

Chapter 3. The State of Canada’s Air Quality               

Chapter 4. Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants and Regional and Global Air Quality Modelling

Chapter 5. Modelling the dispersion of pollutants

Chapter 6. An Introduction to Air Quality Forecasting 

PART II – Air Quality Impacts

Chapter 7. Air Quality Impacts on Health

Chapter 8. Managing Visual Air Quality

PART III – Management of Emissions

Chapter 9. Industrial Emissions Management

Chapter 10. Transportation Emissions: Sources and Regulation

Chapter 11. Effects of Agriculture on Air Quality in Canada

Chapter 12. Air Quality, Health Effects and Management of Ammonia Emissions

Chapter 13. Inventories of Air Pollutant Emissions

PART IV – Policy and Planning

Chapter 14. Development of Standards of Ambient Air Pollutants

Chapter 15. Federal-Provincial Relations in Air Quality Management

Chapter 16. The Canada-US Air Quality Agreement and its Impact on Air Quality Management in Canada

Chapter 17. Airshed Planning: Involving Communities

PART V - Communicating Air Quality Information

Chapter 18. The Canadian Air Quality Health Index

Chapter 19. Communicating Air Quality Information   

Chapter 20. Future of Air Quality Management

Blurb

This book provides a wide overview of the issues related to managing of air quality in Canada.  Learn about the air issues that have caused impacts to ecosystems or human health and hence been targeted to be managed.  Discover how Canada’s national governance involving a federal government along with provincial and territorial governments impacts the air quality management process.  Understand how Canadians manage their air quality in context with the USA, their largest and closest neighbour.  Benefit from the experience of 43 of Canada’s most experienced air quality management professionals who share their insights into the state of air quality in Canada today, how it is managed, as well as giving a glimpse into the future.