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Environmental management involves controlling various forms of pollution to levels that do not pose a threat to the health of the people and the environment in general. This paper presents a framework to analyze sources of local air pollution in cities. Using an OLS model, an investigation is performed of the relationship among the concentrations of air pollutants [more precisely, concentrations of sulfur dioxide (SO2), dust, nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon oxide (CO) and ozone (O3)], economic activities, and meteorology. Time series analysis leads to a model, that explains a high degree of the variance in the air pollution data. The model is applied to daily time series from three measurement stations in innsbruck, Austria. Estimation results of the model generally fit with the expected relations. Space heating influences SO2, dust, and NO, while NO2 levels are primarily affected by traffic. These results also indicate interdependent relations among the pollutants NO, NO2, O3, and CO; O3 levels depend on temperature and sunshine.
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Wagner, E. Impacts on air pollution in urban areas. Environmental Management 18, 759–765 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02394638
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