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Abstract:

This report reviews the current state of understanding in key areas relevant to the feasibility of global integrated assessment of transboundary air pollution. It focuses primarily on scientific issues and data availability, with policy and institutional implications being addressed more fully in a separate review. This document is essentially a background paper and discussion document reflecting the considerations reviewed in the first half of a year-long study funded by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
This report aims to:

Provide background on progress in the application of integrated assessment, and other analogous techniques, to transboundary air pollution processes.
Provide a basis for identifying and assessing, in the next stage of the project, the key issues which would arise from moving from the regional level to hemispherical or global levels.
Identify current uncertainties and constraints which might be relevant to wider applications as well as any new ones which might be expected to arise.

The report is in three sections:

A short overview of where integrated assessment has now reached.
A fuller review of the state of play in the various inputs to assessment models.
A review of current uncertainties, although at this stage in no order of scale or importance.

The report is complemented by a separate paper which provides background assessments of environmental issues and data at regional level; a preliminary review of the prospects for developing global databases, and a separate bibliography.

Publication Year:

2001

Publisher:

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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Author(s):

Gonzalez, T.

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