Air quality services on climate time-scales for decision making: An empirical study of China

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:312

Article

Wan, Kai¹  Shackley, Simon¹  Doherty, Ruth M.¹  Shi, Zongbo²  Zhang, Peiqun³  Glenk, Klaus⁴  Bo, Xin⁵  Chang, Luyu⁶  Feng, Zhiqiang¹  Hewitt, Chris D.^7,8  Wang, Qian⁹  Xu, Jianming⁶  Xu, Jun¹⁰ 

[1] Univ Edinburgh, Sch GeoSci, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

[2] Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham, W Midlands, England

[3] China Meteorol Adm, Beijing Climate Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China

[4] Scotlands Rural Coll, Dept Rural Econ Environm & Soc, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

[5] Appraisal Ctr Environm & Engn, Minist Ecol & Environm, Beijing, Peoples R China

[6] Shanghai Meteorol Serv, Shanghai Environm Meteorol Ctr, Shanghai Key Lab Meteorol & Hlth, Shanghai, Peoples R China

[7] Met Off, Exeter, Devon, England

[8] Univ Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia

[9] Shanghai Environm Monitoring Ctr, Shanghai, Peoples R China

[10] Chinese Res Inst Environm Sci, Minist Ecol & Environm, Beijing, Peoples R China

关键词: Air pollution governance;    Decision-maker needs;    Climate service;    China;    Mixed-methods;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127651

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The provision of climate services for assessing and governing environmental problems such as poor air quality requires interactions between scientists and decision-makers. Air quality information services in China mainly focus on the coming days to weeks. However, users may benefit from air quality information on climate timescales-from months to decades; hereafter air quality climate services. We focused on key decision-makers and stakeholders that are users of air quality climate services and conducted five workshops with these identified users to ascertain their priorities for air quality climate services, and the reasoning behind these priorities. We also conducted a choice-based conjoint experiment via an online survey distributed amongst regional and local Climate Centres and Environmental Monitoring Centres to assess quantitatively the decision-makers' needs. The results from the workshops and the survey showed that the needs for air quality climate services by users in China mainly relate to seasonal forecasting of winter haze events (PM2.5 levels and/or the meteorological conditions conducive to the dispersion of the air pollution); there is also some interest in long-term projections of haze under climate change and a growing interest in ozone pollution in summer. Spatial relevance is perceived to be important to regional and city-level stakeholders who prefer information on the city-level, whilst nationalwide information is important for national government agencies. A high level of reliability of forecasts was needed for uptake. The findings on the needs for air quality climate services by potential users can support researchers and policy-makers in developing the scientific capacity and providing tailored and effective air quality climate services in China.

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