Over the past three years, both the European Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) have developed response strategies to combat concerns over acidification, eutrophication and regional ozone. In each case ‘Integrated Assessment...
The second European Auto/Oil Programme (AO II) mentioned in the preceding articles has involved the European Commission, together with Member States, industry1 and the NGO community, over the past three years. A major goal of this programme has been to assess...
The quality of the air we breathe has become an increasingly important and emotive issue over the past few years. To date, the regulation of air quality has focused mainly on outdoor air (even though for particular pollutants, indoor concentrations may be greater and...
In the companion article in this Review (pp. 6–9) we examine the current state of understanding on the sources of particulate matter (emission inventories) and their contribution to ambient levels in the air we breathe (source apportionment). This serves to highlight...
The European Commission and some Member States have recently carried out studies to estimate the monetary benefits of proposals to improve air quality and reduce adverse effects on the environment. Early studies suggested extremely high monetary benefits arising from...
