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Air quality action planning: why do barriers to remediation in local air quality management remain?

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  • Joanna H. Barnes
  • Enda T. Hayes
  • Tim J. Chatterton
  • James W.S. Longhurst

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UK local air quality action planning has failed to remediate exceedances of air quality targets, particularly for nitrogen dioxide, which are widespread and persistent a decade after the first local action plans were drafted. This paper is relevant to a range of administrations charged with managing air quality. Using a literature review and local authority survey, it explores barriers to improving air quality, i.e. resource limitations, absence of local authority powers, and a lack of intra-governmental co-operation and inter-governmental co-ordination. It concludes that the causes of these inefficiencies are flawed subsidiarity and devolved responsibility decoupled from the powers necessary to implement required actions. Challenging opportunities to reconceptualise air quality action planning to protect public health are suggested.

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  • Joanna H. Barnes & Enda T. Hayes & Tim J. Chatterton & James W.S. Longhurst, 2014. "Air quality action planning: why do barriers to remediation in local air quality management remain?," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(5), pages 660-681, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:57:y:2014:i:5:p:660-681
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2012.762573
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