Integrated Assessment Modeling of Air Pollution in Four European Countries.
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Summary, in English
The integrated assessment modeling on acid rain has incorporated several related effects and pollutants into a multi-pollutant/multi-effect approach, resulting in complex integrated models and policy assessments. The development and implementation of effects-oriented cost-effective emission reduction strategies in Europe are based on integrated assessment models. The project on national integrated assessment modeling in Finland, Denmark, Spain and Sweden aimed to support the national evaluation of European emission reduction strategies. The tasks covered the comparison of inventories and projections for emissions of sulfur, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and volatile organic compounds, assessment of control techniques and related costs, concentration and deposition scenarios to estimate environmental effects of acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone and their temporal aspects, uncertainty analyses on both individual modules and whole integrated models, and dissemination of results to stakeholders. The integrated assessment modeling provided a consistent framework for the harmonization of input data and in-depth scientific research tasks on emissions, pollutant loading and impacts including comprehensive uncertainty analyses, and facilitated the dissemination of knowledge to policy-makers.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2001
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
175-186
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Water, Air and Soil Pollution
Volym
130
Issue
1-4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Chemical Engineering
Nyckelord
- integrated assessment
- model
- acidification
- eutrophication
- ozone
- Europe
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1573-2932