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Particulate Matter Regulatory Policies: National and Global Approach

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Decreasing air quality has posed a great threat to humans health and environment. The rising concentration of particulate matter (PM) in the ambient air has made the condition even worse. PM includes smoke, fumes, soot, and other combustion by-products, and also natural particles such as wind-blown dust, sea salt, pollen, and spores. Rapid increase in the concentration of PM has been observed from different sectors, i.e., transport sector, household sector, and industrial sector. Various sectors have been dealt in different chapters of this book. In this chapter, various regulatory policies about particulate matter have been dealt in transportation sector. Various regulations, i.e., improved vehicle engines, fuel regulation, alternative fuels, traffic management activities, operating restriction and pricing, lane and speed management, traffic flow control, odd–even strategy, vehicle sharing systems, improved transit systems, and lane and speed management, are followed around the world. Standards play a crucial role in regulatory mechanism and need to be encouraged to reduce science–policy gap.

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    Air pollution monitoring program started way back in 1968 by experts of World Meterological Organization (WMO), which formed the stepping stone of first global background air pollution monitoring network (Köhler 1988). Later transboundary movement of air pollution was observed, and need to protect people and environment from this transboundary movement of air pollution was emphasized. For reduction in transboundary movement of air pollution, convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLTRAP) was signed in 1979. Air quality guidelines using expert evaluation of scientific evidence was first produced by WHO in 1987, which was later updated in 1997.

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    Standards accessed from http://www.fao.org/3/Y5136E/y5136e07.htm

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    Price signal is the information provided to consumers and producers, which is reflected through price charged from consumer or producers, which in turn gives a signal about the quantity of product to be produced or demanded.

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    Vandana Maurya

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    Saurabh Sonwani

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Maurya, V., Sonwani, S. (2022). Particulate Matter Regulatory Policies: National and Global Approach. In: Sonwani, S., Shukla, A. (eds) Airborne Particulate Matter. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5387-2_12

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