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NERAM
V Colloquium
Strategic Policy Directions
for
Air Quality Risk Management
October 16-18, 2006
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
NERAM
Guidance Document on Air Quality Risk Management
(PDF of entire document)
Executive
Summary
(PDF)
Chapter
1 - Introduction
(PDF)
Chapter
2 - Air Quality and Human Health
(PDF)
Chapter
3 - Emission Inventories, Air Quality Measurements and Modeling:
Guidance on Their Use for Air Quality Risk Management
(PDF)
Chapter
4 - Air Quality Management Approaches and Evidence of Effectiveness
(PDF)
Chapter
5 - Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in the Development
of Clean Air Policy Strategies
(PDF)
Biographies
(PDF)
POWER
POINT PRESENTATIONS
Conference
Summary, Dan Krewski
Matching
the Metric to Need: Modelling Exposures to Traffic-related
Air Pollution for Policy Support, David Briggs, Kees de
Hoogh and John Gulliver
Ambient
Air Quality Measurement for Policy Decisions, Jeffrey
Brook
Joint
Air Quality and Climate Change Strategies: Challenges and
Opportunities, Quentin Chiotti, et al.
The
Global Burden of Disease Due to Urban Air Pollution: Estimates
and Uncertainties, Aaron Cohen
Policy
Case Studies for North America, Bart Croes
Urban
Air Quality Management Capability of Selected Asian Cities
2006 Update, Kong Ha
Air
Pollution in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, Anthony
Hedley, et al.
The
Use of Source Apportionment for Air Quality Management and
Health Assessments, Philip Hopke
Greater
Vancouver Regional DistrictAir Quality Management, Hugh
Kellas
How
do Montreal’s Heart and Lung Patients Cope with Smog?
Tom Kosatsky, et al.
Why
is Air Pollution a Global Public Health Problem? Dan Krewski
Mortality
Risk Valuation for Air Quality Policy, Alan Krupnick
Science
and Policy for Global Air Quality Management, Michal Krzyzanowski
U.S.-Canada
Cooperation: The U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement, Brian
McLean and Jane Barton
Environmental
Justice in Air Quality Policy Development, Marie O'Neill
Improving
Emission Inventories inNorth America, William Pennell
Impact
of Air Pollution on Public Health: Transportability of Risk
Estimates, Jonathan Samet
Emerging
Issues and Opportunities for Air Quality Management, Jonathan
Samet
Evaluating
the Effectiveness of Interventions:Accountability, Annemoon
van Erp
Policy
Case Studies from Europe, Martin Williams and Matti Vainio
Future
Directions for Global Air Quality Management, Martin Williams
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Colloquium Objective
For the next decade, poor air quality will
continue to threaten public health in developed and developing
countries, even in spite of many improvements and investment.
A large body of scientific information is now available to
suggest health impacts from air pollution may be significant
and guidance is needed to identify preferred air quality management
policy options. However, substantial uncertainties still remain,
hampering effective policy measures with high health benefit-abatement
cost ratios. Recent research has begun to focus on integrative
evidence-based policy analysis to guide air quality objectives,
standard setting, clean air implementation plans and urban
planning decisions. There are, however, still a number of
pressing issues:
• Further emission reductions to meet
air quality and health objectives may require measures at
high costs for society and the economy in some highly developed
countries. This situation creates a dilemma for decision-makers
and regulators.
• Lack of knowledge of which particulate matter components
and emission sources are most harmful to human health.
• Rising background concentrations of some pollutants
may further contribute to health impacts.
• The transboundary nature of emissions requires an
international component to air quality management strategies.
• Integrated environmental policy approaches are urgently
needed linking air quality, climate change, planning and development
of transport and urban and regional planning, and technology
transition processes to achieve sustainable solutions for
future generations.
NERAM V (2006), the fifth and capstone conference
in the NERAM Colloquium series, will feature a Guidance Document
to provide air quality decision-makers and managers and public
health officials with clear direction for evidence-based,
integrated risk management planning. It will look at the current
state of science and policy analysis in Canada, the US, Europe
and Asia and provide a forward-looking perspective on emerging
challenges and opportunities for air quality risk management
in relation to other environmental and sustainability policies.
The document will highlight lessons learned from NERAM Colloquia
I-IV which have tracked the rapid international developments
in the air quality management science-policy interface over
the last five years.
Why
should you attend?
Projections indicating non-attainment of air quality objectives
in many regions of the world make this Colloquium timely.
The NERAM V Guidance Document will provide a forward-looking
‘milestone’ platform to support ongoing comprehensive
policy approaches to reducing air pollution and improving
health.
The Conference will also address the need for international
partnerships and processes for development of air quality
standards, monitoring of air quality, and tools and techniques
for policy analysis and development.
Audience
• National and international air quality regulators
• Air issues policy analysts
• Air quality/health effects scientists
• Local/state/provincial air quality managers
• Public health officials
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The
Conference will feature:
• Opportunities
for interactive discussion with international regulators,
policymakers, scientists and public health professionals
• Panel discussions on challenges and opportunities
in air quality management
• A focus on innovation and emerging approaches to
air quality management
• Integration of findings from state of the art science
and policy analysis
• Evidence-based guidance for air quality management
Session
Themes
• Why will air pollution
continue to be a public health concern for years to come?
• What measurement, monitoring and modeling tools are
available to guide air effective quality management strategies?
• What evidence is available from the evaluation of
implemented air quality policies to guide effective local,
regional and global air quality management strategies?
• What emerging challenges and opportunities are important
in the development of sustainable clean air policy strategies
considering possible co-benefits with other environmental
policies?
Format
The conference presentations and discussions
will be structured around an integrative air quality management
Guidance Document that is being written by an invited panel
of international experts in the science and policy aspects
of air quality management. The Guidance Document will be distributed
in draft form in advance of the conference. Presentations
and discussions will focus on emerging issues and implications
for air quality management. The Guidance Document will be
finalized following the conference to incorporate the collective
thinking of the Conference participants.
Sponsors
(as of Nov. 2005)
• BC Ministry of Environment
• CPPI
• Health Canada
• Ontario Ministry of the Environment
• Environment Canada
• USEPA
• Shell International
• + others
Planning
Committee
Michael Brauer, University of British
Columbia
Quentin Chiotti, Pollution Probe
Ray Copes, BC Centre for Disease Control
Bart Croes, California Air Resources Board
Lorraine Craig, NERAM
Jacobo Finkelman, PAHO
Vincenza Galatone, Environment Canada
Geoff Granville, CPPI
Daniel Krewski, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health
Risk Assessment
Michal Krzyzanowski, WHO, Regional Office for Europe
Glen Okrainetz, BC Ministry of Environment
Franck Portalupi, Environment Canada
John Shortreed, NERAM
Leendert van Bree, Netherlands Environmental Assessment
Agency
Matti Vainio, European Commission, Environment Directorate-General
John Vandenberg, US EPA
Martin Williams, UK Department of Environment
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