Journal
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 43, Issue 39, Pages 6182-6189Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.09.003
Keywords
Integrated assessment model; Air quality management Plan; Control policies; Technical/Non-Technical Measures; Air pollution
Funding
- Italian Ministry for the Environment
- Territory and the Sea
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The Italian Air Quality legislation underwent sweeping changes with the implementation of the 1996 European Air Quality Framework Directive when the Italian administrative Regions were entrusted with air quality management tasks The most recent Regional Air Quality Management Plans (AQMPs) highlighted the importance of Non-Technical Measures (NTMs), in addition to Technical Measures (TMs), in meeting environmental targets. The aim of the present work is to compile a list of all the TMs and NTMs taken into account in the Italian Regional AQMPs and to give in the target year, 2010, an estimation of SO(2). NO(x) and PM(10) emission reductions, of PM(10) concentration and of the health impact of PM(2.5) concentrations in terms of Life Expectancy Reduction In order to do that, RAINS-Italy, as part of the National Integrated Modeling system for International Negotiation on atmospheric pollution (MINNI), has been applied. The management of TMs and NTMs inside RAINS have often obliged both the introduction of exogenous driving force scenarios and the control strategy modification. This has inspired a revision of the many NTM definitions and a clear choice of the definition adopted It was finally highlighted that only few TMs and NTMs implemented in the AQMPs represent effective measures in reaching the environmental targets. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
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