Air Quality Management: Canadian Perspectives on a Global Issue

✍ Scribed by Steven Sakiyama, Randolph P. Angle (auth.), Eric Taylor, Ann McMillan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 399
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
A History of Air Quality Management....Pages 19-42
The State of Air Quality in Canada: National Patterns....Pages 43-67
Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants and Regional and Global Air Quality Modelling....Pages 69-98
Modelling the Dispersion of Pollutants: Two Case Studies....Pages 99-127
Air Quality Forecasting....Pages 129-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Air Quality Impacts on Health....Pages 141-166
Visual Air Quality Management....Pages 167-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Industrial Emissions Management....Pages 187-202
Transportation Emissions: Sources and Regulation....Pages 203-235
Effects of Agriculture on Air Quality in Canada....Pages 237-259
Air Quality, Health Effects and Management of Ammonia Emissions from Fertilizers....Pages 261-277
Inventories of Air Pollutant Emissions....Pages 279-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Ambient Air Quality Objectives....Pages 289-301
Federal-Provincial Relations in Air Quality Management....Pages 303-315
The Canada-US Air Quality Agreement and its Impact on Air Quality Management in Canada....Pages 317-327
Airshed Management....Pages 329-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
The Canadian Air Quality Health Index....Pages 351-363
Communicating About Air Quality—Lessons From Canada’s AQHI....Pages 365-377
The Future of Air Quality Management....Pages 379-388
ERRATUM....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 391-408

✦ Subjects

Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Atmospheric Sciences; Public Health