Risk-Based Prioritization among Air Pollution Control Strategies.pdf

Research Risk-Based Prioritization among Air Pollution Control Strategies in the Yangtze River Delta, China 1,2 3 4 2 Ying Zhou, Joshua S. Fu, Guoshun Zhuang, and Jonathan I. Levy 1Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; 4Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China Researchers have pointed out that emission Background : The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in China is a densely populated region with recent reductions in different sectors may have differ­ dramatic increases in energy consumption and atmospheric emissions. ent levels of effectiveness on reducing human oBjectives : We studied how different emission sectors influence population exposures and the cor- exposure (Li et al. 2004; Streets et al. 1999) responding health risks, to inform air pollution control strategy design. and that the benefits of many pollution control Methods: We applied the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System to model measures likely far exceed the costs; however, the marginal contribution to baseline concentrations from different sectors. We focused on nitrogen the variance by sector and its policy impli­ oxide (NO ) control while considering other pollutants that affect fine particulate