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Political and Legislative Control of Global Air Pollution

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The history of controlling air pollution has been characterized by the growth of awareness and action from the local level to the global. This pattern has been repeated in other areas of environmental concern (e.g. water, endangered species, marine resources), culminating in what has been referred to as the’ internationalization of environmental regulation.’1 This chapter addresses major local, national and international milestones in the regulation of air pollution, with an emphasis on control of global or transnational pollution. The discussion is not intended to be comprehensive, but to illuminate agreements and laws which together represent important steps in our thinking about the global atmosphere, beginning with the air where we live.

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  1. Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3000, Boulder, Colorado, 80307, USA

    John Firor

  2. Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3000, Boulder, Colorado, 80307, USA

    Steven L. Rhodes

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Firor, J., Rhodes, S.L. (1993). Political and Legislative Control of Global Air Pollution. In: Hewitt, C.N., Sturges, W.T. (eds) Global Atmospheric Chemical Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1864-4_10

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