Hi Natalie,
Will this presentation be available by webinar?
Regards,
Marika
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Marika Egyed
Senior Evaluator/Evaluatrice principale
Fuels Assessment Section/Section de l'évaluation des carburants
Air Health Effects Assessment Division/Division de l'évaluation des effets
de l'air sur la santé
Health Canada/Santé Canada
269 Laurier Ave. W., 3-073 PL4903c
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9
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From: Natalie Leung <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 2014-10-28 09:23 AM
Subject: SOCAAR Seminar - Wed Nov 5 2PM
Sent by: "SOCAAR-l: Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol
Research" <[log in to unmask]>
SOCAAR is pleased to announce our next seminar in our 2014-2015 seminar
series.
November 5, 2014, 2 - 3 PM
Wallberg Building, 200 College Street, Room 407
From modelling to policy: refining the science of decision-making
Dr. Amir Hakami
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carleton University
Air Quality Models have a firmly established niche in the scientific
decision-making process for improving air quality. However, despite being
widely used to estimate the impact of various policies, models have often
struggled to provide adequate answers to some of the most immediate and
germane policy questions. What is the most effective investment for
improving air quality? Is the proposed regulation a near-optimal path
towards attaining air quality standards? What is the societal burden of
each individual emission source?
In this talk, I will discuss newer approaches that use models to address
such questions in a more policy-relevant manner. I will explain how a
recent approach in mathematical sensitivity analysis can be used to
estimate contributions of individual sources to air pollution health
outcomes, and how inclusion of these estimates provides for a more
comprehensive analysis framework in air pollution economics. We will
examine how the economics of air pollution control is likely to change as
we move to a warmer climate and a cleaner atmosphere, and how our
conventional perception of long-term societal benefits of pollution
control may be flawed. Finally, we will revisit some of the challenges
that remain before air quality models can be more effectively used in the
scientific decision-making process.
Kind Regards,
Natalie Leung |Financial and Administrative Assistant|
|Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research|University of
Toronto|
|200 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3E5|
|P 416 978 [log in to unmask] |
|www.socaar.utoronto.ca|
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