The introduction of local air quality management in the United Kingdom: A review and theoretical framework

Longhurst, James; Lindley, Sarah; Watson, A.F.R.; Conlan, D.E.

doi:10.1016/1352-2310(96)00114-8

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“…From inception it was clear that the success of LAQM would require connection between policies, adequate resourcing, clear communication of priorities and a shared ownership of responsibility for achieving outcomes between central and local government [5]. Now, after 13 years of LAQM it is apparent that in substantive areas of policy implementation the extent of policy disconnects between local and central and between solutions and diagnosis is evident and urgently requires corrective action.…”

Section: Success and Failure In Laqm: Exploring And Defining The Polimentioning

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“…The AQS considered the historical legacy of air pollution, the contemporary nature of the air pollution challenge, and the adequacy of current controls, measures and priorities. It laid out a new direction for the management of air quality in compliance with the requirements specified in the Environment Act [5]. Together, the Environment Act, 1995 and AQS provide a framework in which national and local actions are required to identify and remediate areas of poor air quality.…”

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Recalibrating the United Kingdom’s local air quality management regime to deliver desired goals

Longhurst

Barnes²,

Chatterton³

et al. 2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The UK has operated a sophisticated Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) regime since 1997. This comprises two distinct phases: Review and Assessment and Action Planning. The Review and Assessment is the diagnostic phase and concludes with declaration of an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) where Air Quality Objectives (AQOs) are exceeded, which then initiates the Air Quality Action Plan intended to provide solutions to the identified problems. More than half of UK local authorities have one or more AQMAs. Air Quality Action Plans are expected to define measures and timescales by which air quality in the AQMA will comply with AQOs. The main source of the air quality exceedence is traffic-related NO 2 or PM 10 . The Review and Assessment phase is effective at diagnosing air quality problems but the Air Quality Action Plan phase cannot yet be judged to be a successful policy intervention. Local authorities have limited powers to initiate direct actions amid concerns about the political impact of measures that will the process affect the car-driving public. In such circumstances local authorities have been unable to get traction on air quality management problems. Central to the LAQM regime is the division of responsibility between central government and local government. Whilst LAQM is a local responsibility, central government's has an overarching role in controlling the regime through framing the process, defining national goals, setting strategic directions, and ensuring appropriate resourcing for national and local actions.Despite this national process guidance and direction local authorities are failing to achieve local air quality improvements at the rate expected when LAQM was introduced.

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Section: Success and Failure In Laqm: Exploring And Defining The Polimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Success and Failure In Laqm: Exploring And Defining The Polimentioning

confidence: 99%

Recalibrating the United Kingdom’s local air quality management regime to deliver desired goals

Longhurst

Barnes²,

Chatterton³

et al. 2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…In the 1980s and early 1990s the scale of the growth in road traffic and consequent emissions, allied with increasing public concern about possible health impacts, found the UK regulatory regime ill-prepared for the challenge of managing the impacts of vehicle related air pollution [5].…”

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“…In 1990, the UK Government set out its environmental strategy in the White Paper "This Common Inheritance" [5]. In the area of air quality, this recognised the growing concern over health effects and announced the establishment of an Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards (EPAQS).…”

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“…The AQS was first published in 1997, and reviewed, updated and amended in 2000 and 2007 (with an Addendum in 2003). The AQS considered the historical legacy of air pollution, the contemporary nature of the air pollution challenge, and the adequacy of current controls, measures and priorities and laid out a new direction for the management of air quality in compliance with the requirements specified in the Environment Act (see [5,[8][9][10]). Together, the Environment Act, 1995 and AQS provide a framework in which national and local actions are required to identify and remediate areas of poor air quality.…”

Section: Policy and Practice In Laqm 1995-2005mentioning

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The development and operation of the United Kingdom’s air quality management regime

Longhurst¹,

Irwin²,

Chatterton³

et al. 2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper considers the development and operation of the UK's air quality management regime since its introduction in the Environment Act, 1995. In the context of a changing and challenging air pollution climate, the development of an effects-based, risk management system for air quality regulation is evaluated. Key to the regime is the division of responsibility between central government and local government for both the diagnosis of areas of poor air quality and for the development of solutions to improve air quality.

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Local Air Quality Issues and Research Priorities Through the Lenses of Chilean Experts: An Ontological Analysis

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Jacóme

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et al. 2020

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Air pollution problems can be large, complex, and ill-structured. They can vary from location to location and combine many complex components: urban expansion, increasing vehicles and industrial emissions, biomass burning, geographic and meteorological conditions, cultural aspects, and economic effects. However, the existing research, accumulated knowledge, and local research priorities are spread over many disciplines and lack a systematic mapping to help manage and develop new strategies for researchers and policy makers. Ontological analysis can be used as a tool to capture this complexity through simple natural-language descriptions and a structured terminology. We describe the development of an ontological framework for "Air Quality Management in Chile" and its application to evaluate the current state of the research. The process was based on focus groups and validated by a panel of multidisciplinary experts. We used the developed framework to highlight the topics that have been heavily emphasized, lightly emphasized, or overlooked in the Chilean research. The framework developed can help researchers, practitioners, and policy makers systematically navigate the domain and provide the opportunity to correct blind spots by enabling more informed hypotheses that deal with air quality issues at a national level. We believe that applying this same process to different countries will yield different results (due to differences in local knowledge and experience). The framework presented could be used to evaluate other important stakeholders (government, media, NGOs, etc.), which will provide a complete picture of how local societies deal with air quality issues at different levels. Additionally, local government institutions will benefit from this analysis by improving funding allocation and opening new research opportunities to improve the distribution of the local body of knowledge.

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The introduction of local air quality management in the United Kingdom: A review and theoretical framework

Cited by 42 publications

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Recalibrating the United Kingdom’s local air quality management regime to deliver desired goals

Recalibrating the United Kingdom’s local air quality management regime to deliver desired goals

The development and operation of the United Kingdom’s air quality management regime

Local Air Quality Issues and Research Priorities Through the Lenses of Chilean Experts: An Ontological Analysis

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