Special Issue "Future Prospects for Air Quality Management in the 21st Century"

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will contribute to addressing air-quality management (AQM) in the future, considering the existing state of the art. Its main objective is to analyze the influence of the interactions between different factors providing science-based knowledge, new approaches and solutions in air-quality management. This should stimulate projects and decisions that will challenge AQM in the coming years to improve current tools or policies. Papers should consider approaches using qualitative and/or quantitative forecasts and analysis at the local, regional, or broader levels. They can suggest alternative policy scenarios, quantifiable, technical and normative works, AQM, and ecosystems protection. Authors may also include forecasts, policy alternatives related to criteria pollutants and air toxics, and the various ways in which climate, air quality, emerging societal issues, and environmental policy interact.

Papers suggesting modeling works, with a decision-making objective, must consider limitations and uncertainties. The latter, inherent in the forecasts, must be sufficiently documented. Papers providing a literature review that addresses the quantitative emissions and air-quality forecasts from a variety of sources, and how they are managed by decision-makers, are welcome. It is encouraged to suggest alternative views and to identify potential issues that have not been highlighted here. Management planning, resilience assessment, and case studies based on multidisciplinary works will also be accepted.

Submissions must relate to the following topics:

• Future air-quality management scenarios;
• Environmental priorities in a changing political landscape;
• Multi-agent systems of AQM;
• Airborne toxic substances and scales of influence;
• AQM and health effects—threshold analysis;
• Impacts of current control measures;
• Economic growth and human interaction with AQM;
• Smart growth and the built environment;
• Environmental security;
• Environmental perspectives of transportation electrification.

Prof. Dr. Salah Khardi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• air-quality management
• air quality and impacts
• pollutants measurement
• pollution modeling
• environmental security
• environemantal policy
• environmental management planning
• resilience assessment and mobility