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From constitutional mandates to practical governance: overcoming regulatory barriers to innovative air quality solutions in urban environments
Anas Akram Mohammed
Al-Turath University, Baghdad 10013, Iraq
Raad Fajer Ftayh
Al-Mansour University College, Baghdad 10067, Iraq
Nada Saddam Jabr
Al-Mamoon University College, Baghdad 10012, Iraq
Mahmood Jawad Abu-AlShaeer
Al-Rafidain University College, Baghdad 10064, Iraq
Ghufran Waleed
Madenat Alelem University College, Baghdad 10006, Iraq
Ievgenii Gorbatyuk
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Kyiv 03037, Ukraine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v10i9.3979
Keywords: Urban air pollution; environmental law; air quality monitoring; constitutional rights; environmental engineering; spatiotemporal modeling; regulatory frameworks.
Abstract
In fast industrializing areas, the constitutional guarantee of a clean environment has often banded together with economic and infrastructural factors, as in the case of urban air pollution, to be one of the problems of governance in the modern era. This paper considers expanded legal and regulatory concerns arising due to the development of new environmental engineering-based technologies for quantifying, and treating, urban air quality. Five atmospheric pollutants PM2. 5, PM10, NO2, CO, and O3—were monitored continuously in 10 urban stations with calibrated sensors over the course of 7200 h. The traffic and industrial sources were unequivocally identified as the dominant one, with clear inter-pollutant feedback, high spatiotemporal variability, and the presence of hot-spots, uncovered through multilevel regression, vector autoregression and sensitivity simulations. Accordingly, we determine that the current stationary boundary layer-based standards are not an adequate model for controlling the pollutant for pointier of contact specific adjustments and that dynamic resources are required to control short term exposure events and co-polluter effects. Using fine-grain spatiotemporal modeling, coupled with nested layers of legal and policy analysis, its new framework proves both how and when the constitution allows adaptation and governance, but throws light equally on when legal loopholes prevent experimentation. Two real-world applications include monitoring of legal tools in practice, dynamically setting pollutant and zoning limits, and institutional investment (to data driven governance). With a view to marrying the accuracy of engineering to the spaciousness of law, this article introduces a nimbler and juster model of urban regulation of air quality.
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