Reduction of air pollution (PM 2.5) in Beijing, China
The environmental challenge of pollution has been at the top of the agenda in any conferences where the environmental conservation is the theme. There are various categories of pollution that are experienced and one of the major one, and sadly the fasted growing and dangerous, is air pollution. There are various cities that are considered worse off in terms of air pollution and Beijing, China happens to be one of the leading cities in air pollution.
Over the years, there has been a serious problem of air pollution within Beijing, with some levels going so high that the reach the 151-200 air quality index (AQI) such that the residents of these areas have to use masks (U.S. Department of State, 2014 Mission China: Beijing). The main sources of pollution within this city have been noted over time to be exhaust from the more than 5 million vehicles that fill the city each day, the continued burning of coal in the areas neighboring Beijing, the dust storms that approach the city from the North as well as the dust from the local construction that goes on within the city (South China Morning Post, 2014). From the fog that covered the city in 2013, there have been some measures from the government to try and curb the menace but more needs to be done through the measures proposed below.
Mun S.H. & Jorgenson D.W., (2008). Greening China: Market-based policies for air-pollution control http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/09/greening-china-market-solutions
1. Location of information
The information was located using the google scholar that brought forth a significant number of sources and this stood out as a significant and scholarly enough to be used for the purpose of this paper. The information was them accessed from the website of the magazine where there were several related articles that would be useful for the completion of the assignment.
2. Source to report on Mun S.H. & Jorgenson D.W., (2008). Greening China: Market-based policies for air-pollution control http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/09/greening-china-market-solutions
3. Qualification of the source
The source is a factual report and not an opinion piece within the online magazine and the reliability of the information can be seen in the way the report outlines the other findings and reports by other scholars and even experiments by researchers like Thomas Rawski of the University of Pittsburgh. This creates a credibility of the article as a good source for information. The presentation of the various research findings within the article creates a sense of a well researched and compiled article hence high accuracy in presenting facts.
4. Evaluation of information
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