Air Pollution XXII

"Air Pollution XXII" contains the 32 peer-reviewed papers accepted for the Twenty Second International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, held in Opatija, Croatia in July 2014. The conference was first held in 1993 and the collected papers from the conference series provide an important record of the development of science and policy pertaining to air pollution. This volume brings together contributions from scientists from around the world presenting recent work on various aspects of air pollution phenomena. Contributions in this volume continue to address a broad range of urgent scientific and technical developments in our understanding of the cause, consequence and management of air pollution.

One conclusion drawn from the conference series is that the management of air pollution is one of the most challenging problems facing the international community. Discussions in the series have explored the widespread nature of air pollution phenomena and their impacts on human health and the environment. Papers presented at the conference have addressed a wide range of air pollution issues and challenges but a particular strength of the series has been the attention given to regulatory and, more recently, market solutions to air pollution management.

The conference series has also consistently acknowledged that science remains the key to identifying the nature and scale of air pollution impacts and reaffirmed that science is essential in the formulation of policy-relevant information for regulatory decision-making. The conference series also acknowledged, at a very early stage, that science alone will not improve a polluted atmosphere. The scientific knowledge derived from well designed studies needs to be allied with further technical and economic studies in order to ensure cost-effective and efficient mitigation. In turn, the science, technology and economic outcomes are necessary but not sufficient. Increasingly, the conference series has recognized that the outcome of such research need to be contextualized within well formulated communication strategies that help policy makers and citizens to understand and appreciate the risks and rewards arising from air pollution management. Consequently, the papers included in this volume include development of the fundamental science of air pollution and placement of these new developments within the frame of mitigation and management of air pollution.