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:
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Date:
2014-10-28 09:23 AM
Subject:
SOCAAR Seminar
- Wed Nov 5 2PM
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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 5932|[log in to unmask]
|
|www.socaar.utoronto.ca|
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